Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack the Dripper. Adolph Gottlieb's Blue at Noon, for example, conveys a strong sense of light and dark skies and of lilting movement. Looking at it is rather like watching a snowstorm through a windowpane and remembering Thomas Nash's line: "Brightness falls from the air." Jackson Pollock's Scent is a heady specimen of what one worshiper calls his "personalized skywriting." More the product of brushwork than of Pollock's famed drip technique, it nevertheless aims to remind the observer of nothing except previous Pollocks, and quite succeeds in that modest design...
Died. Ada Ochs Adler, 89, sister of the late Adolph S. Ochs, longtime (1896-1935) publisher of the New York Times and the Chattanooga Times (1878-1935), mother of the late Major General Julius Ochs Adler, vice president (1919-55) of the New York Times; in Manhattan...
After 20 minutes in the building, the robbers made their getaway, drove to the Roxbury home of Adolph ("Jazz") Maffie, 44, quickly discovered that they had too much money to count in one night. Joseph McGinnis, 52, the eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced...
When it comes to beating the bushes for new talent, Bear Bryant drives himself as hard as he ever drives his players. He had hardly hit Texas early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...
...inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with a jeweled slipper.) Someone reminded Kay that she will soon be deluged with baby showers. Said she: "Oh, dear! I've just finished thanking everyone for our wedding presents...