Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rupertus exploded in a barrage of blistering Marine denunciation. After listening for a minute or two-still at attention -Smith whipped out a notebook and began taking down his superior's remarks in his odd shorthand. "And that," another officer recalled, "was just about the way Smith was. He would never have said anything back to Rupertus, because he [Smith] was a marine by the books. The general was talking, so Smith just stood there like he was in staff meeting, taking notes...
Adroitly sidestepping 22-month-old Prince Charles, who expressed a desire to break open the camera and pull out the "birdie," Britain's Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton snapped the shutter 100-odd times, presented the world with the first pictures of Princess Elizabeth's second-born, Princess Anne. Like any other one-month-old, the young princess went through most of the ordeal either crying or looking bored, but Photographer Beaton reported that she did smile once, displaying a perfect set of pink gums...
...faced hospital authorities scrabbled through their records to see how MacLeod had gotten away with his fraud. Born in Ste. Cecile, Quebec, he had gone to grade school in Maine and almost finished high school in Ste. Cecile. Between odd clerical jobs he served a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1941 he rejoined the Army and was assigned to the Medical Corps. Private MacLeod read every medical book in sight, carefully noted the Army medics' talk and techniques. At war's end, self-taught "Dr. MacLeod" felt ready for professional duties...
...Manhattan last week, the TV industry was mulling over the advice of a practicing psychologist. Vienna-born Dr. Ernest Dichter had told his 60-odd corporate clients that U.S. women who claim they don't like daytime TV are only fooling...
Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...