Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sunday nights, after the Epworth League meeting, for homemade cinnamon rolls and coffee and discussion of the topics of the day. Young Hubert was always a fascinated listener and frequently a precocious participant. "I can never remember going to bed before midnight since I was twelve years old, except when I was sick," he recalls. "There was always talk, talk, talk...
...modest show in London's Army and Navy department store in 1952, Affandi has achieved global recognition as a rare original in a world where art fashion seems all too pervasive. Delighting in success, he happily toured the U.S. and Europe, but now prefers to stay home, except for occasional painting excursions to Bali. Much of his time is spent chatting with visitors in any one of five languages he has picked up in the course of his career...
...Manhattan's William Esty Co., 17th largest U.S. advertising agency (1959 billings: an estimated $75 million), succeeding James J. Houlahan, 52, who became chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Peace went to work for Esty in 1941 after a brief stint at Fordham, has been there since except for Army service during World War II. He was moved up to the presidency while still young because Chairman Houlahan feels that "the peak years of creativity for a president are between the late...
Major Crisp, who describes himself as a frightened man who fought to submerge his fears, was always out in front, almost always outnumbered. His picture of the desert terrain is remarkably well drawn-a weird world of sand and escarpments where the battle swirled without seeming aim or purpose except to destroy whatever enemy showed, usually to the surprise of both sides. Friends destroyed each other supposing that they had the enemy in their sights, and Crisp's most sickening memory is that of the day when he himself knocked out a British tank...
...rumored that a few Stakhanovites did the insides of ventilating shafts; it is certain that no student could study the morning of the raid. It must have been the spirit of the thing that really mattered, for all the bathrooms were repainted the same color. All except those whose walls were mauve, that is. These the men painted ochre...