Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
Swollen Mandarin. Cronin promises to relate, in future installments of People, the "even more trying times that were still ahead." But some Britons had already seen enough. Cassandra, the terrible-tempered columnist of the London Daily Mirror, dubbed Cronin "this swollen mandarin of backstairs protocol," and railed against his "miserable etiquette, his tawdry patronage and his backbiting desire to make money at the expense of his late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals...
Died. Hugh Hammond Bennett, 79, chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from its founding in 1935 until his 1952 retirement, a folksy Cassandra whose warnings that the U.S. must improve its conservation practices were largely ignored before the great dust storms of the 19305s; of cancer; in Burlington, N.C. A North Carolina farmer's son who had done Government conservation work for 32 budget-lean years prior to setting up the SCS, Bennett won one of his first big appropriations by leading several Congressmen to a Capitol window, pointing to a cloud of dust, and saying: "There goes...
...Kennedy's pledge of a vigorous Presidency is a welcome and promising start for his campaign. If he can continue to discuss the issues on a realistic and intelligent basis, he may be able to keep the 1960 race from the usual level of slogans and petty side issues. Cassandra may not bear glad tidings, but she is a good deal more truthful than Pollyanna...