Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
Cattle & History. He was an odd politician-he made few speeches...
...portrays psychological abnormality not through odd characters but through characters who seem quite ordinary, for he judges that in every man there is a dimension of disease. In Mr. Arcularis he shows the terror of death through the emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...
...bleak, green-walled hall of California's San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury-two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers-solemnly took their places at a table before an audience of fellow convicts. The case before them was an old one: Athens v. Socrates. The evidence: Plato's Apology, in which Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of the city, and the Crito, in which the old prisoner refuses a chance to escape...
Died. Arthur Stringer, 76, tireless Canadian-born author; in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He wrote 50-odd novels bristling with danger and hairbreadth escapes; a dozen books of verse; plays; short stories; a biography of Poet Rupert Brooke; several volumes of Shakespeare criticism; the scenarios for The Perils of Pauline, the silent climax-a-week movie serial which made Heroine Pearl White rich and famous...