Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goren's six club bid was unorthodox but brilliant. It was just the sort of bid a bridge player can make with a partner like Helen Sobel-if the player himself happens to be Charles Goren, king of the aces...
Plans are under way to mount it off-Broadway during the coming season; and the motivation is justified, for this is an important play. It is "difficult" and unorthodox, and demands unflagging concentration. There is no plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
...months before Upjohn feels able to announce its findings, at least two years before a new product could reach drugstores. Billie's tea, notes one researcher, contains "gunk" that needs thorough investigation. But Upjohn considers the" project highly worthwhile. Very useful drugs have been found before in unorthodox fashion, e.g., reserpine, the ancient tranquilizer made from India's Rauwolfia plant, which became an antihypertensive drug. A favorable outcome will make Medicine Man Billie a rich...
...Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge, but Milton, who has never progressed beyond the Culbertson quick-trick count, is admittedly overmatched...
Died. Percy Alfred Scholes, 81, British music critic and historian, witty, unorthodox, occasionally prissy lexicographer, who wrote the entire 1,195-page Oxford Companion to Music; in Switzerland. Most novels are duller than Dr. Scholes's reference book, in which harmony is "the clothing of melody" and "form is one of the composer's chief means of averting the boredom of his audience...