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Marx and Legman Engels made an extraordinarily productive reporting team. Writes Hale: "With Teutonic diligence, they dredged up from diplomatic dispatches, statistical abstracts, government files, the British Museum, gossip and newspapers in half a dozen languages, a mass of information on going topics such as had never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some...
...astute, farsighted minister, 68-year-old Nuri es-Said,Feisal snipped the royal gold scissors and opened to regular traffic two $4,500,000 bridges across the Tigris. In another quarter of the capital the King dedicated a 1,250-unit housing project which boasts schools, a mosque and "gossip squares," where Iraqis may indulge their favorite national pastime. The housing program's long-range goal: 400,000 dwellings-new roofs for one-third of Iraq's population...
Died. Burton Rascoe. 64, critic, editor, author (Titans of Literature, Before I Forget), compiler (1924-28) of the literary gossip column "A Bookman's Daybook," at one time syndicated to 400 newspapers, who was credited with discovering James Branch Cabell and touting, before they were fully recognized, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg; in Manhattan...
...Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay, 50, one of the great military organizers of modern times, who does not wear a West Point ring (Ohio State '32) and is considered too bullish for the Washington china shop by the Pentagon's apostles of super-smoothness...
...formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks). In the U.S. there have been previous calypso flurries, including Rum and Coca-Cola in 1945, but the real...