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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19, 1953 (Tuesday)
A sudden, unexpected flood
of donors this morning
brought the number of pints
of blood pledged for tomor
row's blood collection here to
325, just 25 under the quota.
Three first places were won
by Medford High school speak
ers at the Linficld speech
tournament at McMinnvillc
Saturday; 12 placed in the
finals.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19. 1943 (Sunday)
Rogue valley orchardists
ask Sen. Charles McNary to
aid in obtaining soldier work
ers to help harvest local pear
crop.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot'' column: "The
TtusKianft am closing in on
Dncipcropetrovsk, a vital
point that ruthlessly twisted
the tongue of J. Jerome, the
radio linguist, until he -was
speechless or nearly so.
30 YEARS AGO
Bicycle, owned by city hall
Janitor for 22 years, "comes
to bitter end" when it is run
over by city policeman.
Medford Rotary club adopts
resolution expressing confi
dence in Judge H, D. Norton,
District Attorney George Cod
ding and County Commission
er R. E. Ncalon.
40 YEARS AGO
Postmaster William Warner
announces William Bradley,
Medford, has been given con
tract to transport mail be
tween depot and post office.
Medford Woodmen of the
World to build home for Mcr
ril Charley, pioneer Rogue
valley resident.
50 YEARS AGO
Slate Sen. II. Von ricr Hcl
len returns to home at Wcllen
because of illness; says fish
bill will be handled by Clar
ence Realties.
Fred Purdin, son of city at
torney, injured in moturcyclc
accident on the "Ashland
road."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ten correct it superior;
seven or eight It oiccllent; five or
sli is good.
1. What would you be after
if you went in search of Os
wego Tea, Bird of Paradise
and Indian Pipe
2. Winds are caused by dif
ferences of air pressure and
what else.
3. On which number is the
decimal system based?
4. In what country would
you spend drachmas?
6. What commonly used
word pairs mean (1) wreck
age and di iftage, (2) very
clean and (3) friends and re
lations? ti. Which of the three ships
did Columbus personally com
mand'' 7. If you have $(13 in six
bills, none of which is $1,
what bills do you have?
8. Where is the lowest point
in the North American conti
nent? U. Of what religion is the
Crescent the symbol?
10. One early vice president
presided over (he Senate
while under indictment for
murder in a duel; name him.
Answers: 1, American flow
ers and plants. 2. Tempera
ture, 3. Ten. 4. Greece. 5.
Flotsam and Jetsam, spic and
span, kith and kin. 6. Santa
Maria. 7. One fifty, one five
and four twos. 9. Death Val
ley. 9. Mohammedan. 10. Aar
on Burr,
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Lewis and
After a tempestuous
who was 83 last week, is
ers as an elder statesman of labor. But in the coal
fields of eastern Kentucky he has never been
held in lower esteem.
The miners' disenchantment stems from a ser
ies of decisions by directors of the United Mine
Workers of America's Welfare and Retirement
Fund. Lewis left the union presidency three years
ago, but he still is chairman of the welfare fund.
The fund directors
bers back in August 1962 that their benefits
would be forfeited if they continued to work in
mines not paying into the fund the 40c-a-ton
royalty required by the UMW contract. The fund
provides free medical care in its 10 union-owned
hospitals for members, their families, and retired
miners. (The fund in 19bl had cut back the re
tirement pension from $100 a month to $75.)
HTHEN last October the directors said that the
fund wanted to dispose of its hospitals in
Hazard, McDowell, Middlesboro, and Whites-
burg, all in eastern Kentucky. If not taken over
by the communities by next July 1, the fund plans
to close them. The four
30b beds; the UMW values them at $7.7 million.
The four mayors have asked the fund to give
the hospitals to the communities and continue
to operate them for the remainder of 19(53. The
communities probably could not operate the hos
pitals even as gnts.
Ten years ago almost all the coal coming from
eastern Kentucky was dug in 32 union-organized
mines and loaded directly on railroad cars. To
day only three of these large mines are working.
Less than 60 per cent of
the region is from union
comes from "dog holes," small pits where coal
is loaded on trucks and hauled to rail centers.
THE trouble, according to John Ed Pearce,
springs from a decision by Lewis shortly after
World War II "to further the mechanization of
America's mines, and to 'shrink mine labor from
many untrained, ill-paid men to a few skilled,
highly-paid union members, working in a safer,
more stable industry."
The result? Today 160,000 miners produce
as much coal as 700,000 did 25 years ago. Coal
mining is one of the nation's most highly auto
mated activities.
Kentucky's smaller operators said they
couldn't afford to automate. And they couldn't
afford the 40c-a-ton royalty Lewis won from the
big operators, nor the $21.25 a day wage, nor the
free paid vacations.
Thus chronic depression has plagued eastern
Kentucky for the past 15 years. And because
man must eat, union members have worked the
dog holes for as little as $16 a week. Wildcat
strikes erupted in September, and pickets roved
the winding roads in caravans of up to 200 cars,
forcing the non-union mines to close. A truce has
been arranged, but tempers are still high.
And if Lewis's board of directors shuts the
eastern Kentucky hospitals, they'll rage even
higher. E.R.R.
Jimmy the Giant
James Riddle Hoffa,
birthday anniversary last week, has reached
an age when most men of his considerable fi
nancial success begin to relax, but the Teamsters
boss is as busy as ever. When not appearing
in federal courts he busies himselt with blasting
the U.S. Justice Department and Robert F. Ken
nedy, and organizing labor protests against leg
islation proposed in Congress. He is backing a
march on the Nation's Capital next month as part
of a continuing campaign of protest.
He joined the International Brotherhood in
1932. Three years later he was president of local
299 in Detroit. He became chairman of the un
ion's central conference a job he still holds
in 1953, and served as vice president of the
brotherhood from 1952 until 1957, when he suc
ceeded Dave Beck as general president.
Hoffa has made his enemies within the union
as well as without, but so far internal revolt has
been sporadic and not strikingly successful. The
Teamsters remains the biggest union in the Unit
ed States and the world. With upwards of 1.4
million members, it is the only one of the Big
Five unions in this country to have increased
in size since 1956.
And Hoffa continues to dream of a nation
wide communications complex which would con
solidate his position as Big Labor's big giant.
E.R.R. "
Gurw-Ho as All Get-Out
There probably is some long-term benefit to
the sudden lemmiiig-i tish of 50-mile hikers, goad
ed on if not triggered off by the fit and fiercely
smiling ghost of the late teddy Roosevelt. liiit
have we considered where it could lead us par
ticularly if the virus becomes coeducational?
(e.g. "Dear Dinner thawing in refrigerator.
Please diaper the baby and empty the garbage.
Back within ID1 - hours. What makes' you 'so
torpid? Love, etc.")
And isn't highway traffic congested enough,
just with cars?
These fads have a way of wearing themselves
out, but not always in time. Personally, we plan
to spend the next week walking VERY slow-h
and waiting for the other fellow to nush the
"down" button. SOMEONE has to assert him
self. Seattle Argus.
Automation
career. John L. Lewis.
venerated in some quart
warned the union's mem
hospitals have a total of
the coal coming out of
mines. The remainder
who observed his 50th
MLlHOhO
The Uncertain-Trumpet
... Communications ...
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
The Answer
To the Editor: A letter in
the communications concern
ing the problem of teenage
vandalism and disturbances
at school dances interested
me, as it must have interested
other parents. I agree with
the writer, up to a point, but
I do not feel that we, as par
ents, should find it necessary
to depend upon our law en
forcement officials to disci
pline our children.
There is a great need for
parental supervision and guid
ance which begins, not at the
police station, but in the
home. Our nation was found
ed by families and homes and
this has been the foundation
of our democracy. There must
also be the church, the school,
and the local community to
complete the proper environ
ment, but the real beginning
is the home where love and
understanding, discipline and
responsibility are the accepted
standard. To give our children
a sense of confidence in them
selves, they must also be
taught self-discipline. There
must be responsibility at an
early age and the responsibil
ity increased as the child
grows and matures. The teen
ager with nothing to do and
Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
STRAIN OF ILLOGIC
Washington - At first
glance, the choice ot the pro
fessorial Harold Wilson to
head the British Labor parly
would seem
i to mean that
victory so
painfully won
over its left
wing by his
Hugh
Gailskell, has
been canceled
out as though
wmu it had never
been by Gaitskcll's recent
tragic death.
Wilson's "orientation" and
"commitment" in the two
favorite words of the earnest
ly angry and reformist egg
heads both in England and
here has thus far been to
the left. And the far-out part
of the left, of course, is prin
cipally distinguished for an
guished "ban - the bomb"
howling and for a strong
streak of anti-Americanism.
Thus, there Is no lack of
surface reason for moderates
and conservatives on both
sides of the Atlantic to look
upon his elevation as bad
news for continued responsi
ble American - British co
operation, assuming that la
bor is able to overturn Prime
Minister Harold Maemillan's
conservative government in
the next British elections.
4LL the same, it is far too
early lo despair quite
apart from the important fact
that "Old Mac" has not yet
been beaten and. indeed,
might not be when the show-
down comes, notwithstanding
recent conservative setbacks
In local elections in England.
British politics has an al-
mini consistently logical est cliche of all. politics is
I strain of illogic. And it may Ihc ai l of Ihc possible, which
well be that if and whi n he is lo say of compromise The
! becomes prune minister, the really doctrinaire leftists
I Harold Wilson in power will have no capacity lo compro-
lie a quite diHorcnt man Horn misc. however honorably, and
Ihc Harold Wilson who was thus no capacity to govern,
j so long out of power a n d ; cither a country or a party.
thus full of the luxuries of This Gaitskell surely learn-
irresponsibility. cd Tins Wilson, too. will
It is a stereotype lo s,iy le.un Or. if not. there very
that actual responsibility has . likely will be one of two con
I a sobering etfect on any poll- ; sequences He w ill not lead
lllcian. al either edge of the the labor party long: or. lead-
water. Moreover, and more mg it from liie base of per-
importantly, n is well to re- petu.il disarray which is un
I member thai many cotiscrv.i- checked left-w ing politics lie
I lives here used to fear Gait- will lead it to a lost election
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Section
m meeM
no parental guidance is most
often the one who presents
the real problem. "An idle
mind is the devil's workshop"
is a very present truth.
Modern-day parents neglect
their children. Oh, they give
their children well-balanced
meals, the best clothes, and a
great mass of material lux
uries. But there is something
far more important which
cannot be rounded out in dol
lars and cents and that is par
ents who give their time to
their children. Many parents
are so busy with clubs and or
ganizations, bowling or golf
ing, and some at the corner
tavern, that they fail miser
ably here. Without realizing
it, these parents are selfish.
Their own self-interests come
before their God-given respon
sibility to their children.
I agree with the writer con
cerning certain offenders who
have simply been excused be
cause of their parents' influ
ence. This is deplorable, but
there is a psychological rea
son for not printing names in
the paper, as well as other rea
sons, and publishing names is
no solution to the problem.
Senator Estes Kcfauver has
worked diligently with juvc-
S. White
skell himself until they
came to know him better. He,
too, was a bookish sort, if
only on the outside. And he,
too, was sometimes suspected
in the early days of being a
pretty angry young egghead
himself.
1UT he grew immeasurably
in the job of party leader,
first by determinedly setting
out to put the left wing in its
place and second by demon
strating himself lo be as good
a pro-Westerner, as tough a
pro-Western military alliance
type as could be found in all
the Western world.
True enough, no one can
say for certain that Wilson
will take Gaitskcll's course;
but there is no worse than a
50-50 chance that he will.
The simple realities have
a way of boring from within,
of bearing in upon any public
man once he reaches a po
sition of responsible leader
ship. And the simple reali
ties are that the labor party's
left wing, like the democratic
loft wing here, becomes in
tolerable and intolerably bor
ing after a while to any lead
er who wants his leadership
to succeed.
'PHE left wing became in
tolerable to Gaitskell. as
i he once smilingly implied lo
this columnist in London, for
' a simple and unalterable rca-
j son: The more a leader sees
of the facts of political life
I the more he realizes that left
j wings are more interested in
prose than in performance, in
sinking righteous attitudes
than in getting things done,
And. in the end. any party
leader survives onlv as and
, when he ran get things done.
For. In use perhaps the old-
Western Diplomats See New Government
Of Iraq Anti-Communist, Not Pro-West
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newi Analyst
Assessing the probable di
rection the new Iraqi govern
ment will take. Western dip
lomats recm to have come
up with the following conclu
sion: Anti Communist, but not
necessarily pro-Weat.
ft was one of the few cases
where a revolutionary gov
ernment has been accorded
recognition by the United
States before similar recog
nition by the Soviet Union.
At the very head of the
parade was the United Arab
Republic of President Abdel
Gamal Nasser.
In its first few days, the
new regime of President Ab
dul Salam Aref committed
itself on a number of impor
tant points.
By naming two Kurds to
its cabinet, the regime indi
cated it hopes for a peaceful
settlement of the Kurdish re-
nile problems and has looked
objectively at them from
every standpoint. In a sum
mary of his studies he simply
stated that what this country
needs is God-fearing, God-loving,
old-fashioned fathers and
mothers whn haVA lima (nr
thc.rchlldrcn.nd who be -
licve in discipline and respon
sibility. I believe this is the
answer for the future of our
young people.
B. L. Johnson,
1017 West 10th St.,
Medford.
Cause and Cur
To the Editor: Several
months ago in your "Family
Council" column you printed
an affecting letter from the
mother of a teen-age girl. This
unfortunate young lady was
afflicted with a distressing
case of acne and some wretch
had convinced her that the
trouble could be cleared up
if she would stimulate her hor
mones by means of heavy pet
ting. At the time the mother
wrote the poor girl was preg
nant but she still had her
pimples.
Kennedy style tax cut, any
one? Dick House
711 East Main st.
Medford
Cat Bill
To the Editor: In the first
letter about the cat control
bill, it was mentioned that it
has the support of the bird
lovers of America, or some
such organization. These peo
ple have been trying for years
to get bills like these through
various state legislatures.
A number of years ago the
Illinois state legislature ac
tually passed a similar bill,
more extreme, but for Ihc
same purpose.
This bill was vetoed by the
then Governor Adlai Steven
son, and Cats magazine state
cd that it was a bill actually
aimed at the extermination of
cats.
The bird lovers do not care
about the welfare of cats,
they want all possible cats
eliminated, and since almost
half the cats in America are
homeless their object could
be fairly well accomplished,
should this bill became law.
Better an occasional dead
kitty by the road, than that
thousands of them should be
exterminated.
Paula Sorcnson
4205 Browne st.
Omaha, Neb.
tt-USU'VL'
I illx A-A
"Oh! Oh! Looks like the
another speech on Cuba!"
bellion which has been flam
ing in the north of Iraq for
the past 18 month.
Drop Kuwait Claim
In a friendly exchange with
the government of Kuwait,
the Aref regime indicated it
will not press Iraqi claims to
that oil-rich sheikdom. In
1961, the late Premier Kas-
Matter of Fact
(cl New York HeraM
THE MIRAGE OF THE
MIRAGE
Washington On Friday,
coldly defying warning of a
plotted assassination, Gen de
Gaulle went
to the French
War College
to lecture the
student body.
His subject
was the mili
tary power
and the polit
ical s i g n i f
icance of the
clear force.
The Incident once again un
derlines a key fact just pos
sibly, the key fact in the
Europe of 1963. The fact is
that de Gaulle genuinely be
lieves that his new deterrent
will deter.
What then is the nature
of this French "force de
frappe," and why is it doom
ed not to fulfill Gen. de
Gaulle's expectations?
N THE first phase, the
1 be $ Tght, fast
Mirage IV bombers, which
will carry free-falling atomic
bombs with a power of be
tween 50 and 150 kilolons.
Seven Mirages are to become
operational this year. The en
tire force of 50 Mirages is to
be ready in 1965.
The Mirage is an excellent
aircraft, almost identical with
the best and newest American
light bomber, the Navy's A:tJ.
ft has a speed close to Mach
2, or about 1,200 miles an
hour at altitude, and it can
do 600 miles an hour, or per
haps a little better, when fly
ing on the deck.
Its range is an important
limitation. Following the pro
posed French attack plan, in
fact, a Mirage can barely
reach Moscow oneway, even
after being refueled by tank
er on the very border of the
Soviet bloc.
NONETHELESS, since there
-t ' is no lack of French pilots
brave enough to make a one
way strike, the original con
cept of the "force de frappe"
was entirely sound. The con
cept was to attack at very
low altitude, thus taking ad
vantage of the low altitude
gap which then existed in the
Soviet air defense system.
The concept Is sound no
longer, however, for the quite
simple reason that the low
altitude gap is now rapidly
filled by the so-called Soviet
SAM-3 missile. The SAM-3,
comparable to the American
Hawk missile, is specifically
designed to kill low-flying
planes.
The French Dcfc.ise Min
ister, Pierre Messmcr. has rec
ently claimed that the Mir
ages will fly loo low and too
fast to be killed by SAM-3's.
But this is demonstrably in
correct. To begin with, the Mirages
cannot literally traverse Rus
sia at tree-top level, or if they
attempt this, there will be
Mirages soon after the flight
begins. The lowest the bomb
ers can practically fly is some
where between 300 and 500
feet, except, of course, just
over target.
rPH
-1 t
ry is clearly aware that it
win ue iar irom easy to cross
the vast Russian spaces at this
niiiiuut;, iui wiey nave occn
senator it going la make
1 .. .
U ,.'T .
V
0s
sem touched off a crisis when
he claimed Kuwait. The Brit
ish rushed troops to Kuwait,
and the Iraqi representative
walked out of an Arab
League meeting when other
Arab states failed to back
Kasrem's claim.
The new regime has de-
Joseph Alsop
Trihune Syndicate
i trying to buy super-precise
terrain avoidance radars in
I 'he U. S.
I Flying at 300 to 500 feet, at
close to the speed of sound
a Mirage will present a target
to a SAM-3's elevated radars
for about two minutes.
Two minutes will give the
SAM-3 an unfortunately am
ple margin to "lock onto"
and destroy the Mirage. The
American Hawk missile can
"lock on," launch itself, and
kill a low-flying jet plane
within 30 seconds. It must be
assumed that the similar Rus
sion weapon can do the same.
A last-minute descent to
tree-top level will not save
the Mirages. Being so short
ranged, they will be forced
to fly straight courses, down
well defined corridors, from
the Soviet bloc borders to al
most every significant urban
target in western Russia.
Hence the Soviets will find
it easy to organize their SAM
3 defenses, not only ring
fashion around their cities but
also in depth along the in
evitable attack-corridors.
TT MAY be taken as certain
that the Soviet air defense
command will do just this. Al
ready, they have quite liter
ally deployed many thousands
of their high altitude anti
aircraft missiles, the SAM-2s.
The SAM-3 deployment is
known to be going forward
with comparable urgency on
a comparable scale.
The high altitude SAM-2s
foreclose the Mirages from
extending their range, and
thus escaping from their attack-corridors,
by flying at
high altitudes during part of
their journey. The light
weight of the Mirages pre
cludes their carrying anything
like the supply of missile
fooling devices which the far
heavier American B-52's are
able to carry.
Nor is this the whole an
swer to Defense Minister
Mcssmer's reported remark
that French bombers can be
counted on to do as well as
American bombers.
rESPITE the B-52's superior
" missile-fooling equipment
and their vastly superior num
bers, it is known that the
American attack plans have
been revised because of the
SAM-3's. They now call for
preliminary missile barrages,
to beat pathways through the
Soviet air defenses for the
more vulnerable B-52's. The
"force de frappe" will not be
supplemented by operational
missiles until 1969 at the
earliest.
In the present phase, there
fore, the position is quite
clear. By the most conserva
tive expert estimate, the Mir
age will have a 40 per cent
chance of surviving a single
encounter with a SAM-3.
When the Soviet SAM-3 defense-in-depth
is in place, in
1965 or thereabout, any at
tacking Mirage may be ex
pected to encounter at least
four SAM-3's.
After four SAM-3 encount
ers, a Mirage will have no
better than a 2 per cent
chance of reaching ils target.
Make the unlikely assump
tion that all 50 Mirages are
operational for a pre-emptive
strike. Allow for no aborts
whatever for other causes.
Even then, only a single
( bomber of the whole "force
! de frappe" can be expected
to defeat the new Soviet low
altitude defense and reach its
target.
TT IS easy enough to see why
i Gen. de Gaulle and even
Defense Minister Messmcr arc
jablc to ignore al these grim
facts. Much pride; a little
wishfulness; the deepest su
spicion of the American in
telligence concerning the So
viet SA:r.3's: above all. ad
vice from air generals who
repeat the technology-defying
incantation of our own Curtis
LcMay, "the bomber will al
ways get through" these are
u:c Clements oi the delusion
But although Gen. de
Gaulle thinks his deterrent vent them,
will rictcr. what of the man Lewis Carroll, of course,
lo be delerrrd- Can one gave us "chortle"- Thomss
.imagine Nikila S. Khrush-i Huxley made up "agnostic":
chcv.s bciiu deterred, even Alexander Pope couud
; for an instant, by a force "bathos"; and there are onlv
which he will consider lucky a handful of such others that
to put a single old-model A- we can be sure will tav in
bomb on target- 1 the language
! Here, in truth, are all the! My own nomination for the
elements of one of those gi- .most imperishable word-coin-gantic
misunderstandings be-1 age of the 2mh century is
tween national leaders that Stephen Potter's "gamoman
lead to equally gigantic his-' ship." which lus in less than
tone tragedies which is i!ic , a dozen vrars fathered a
justification of this long, whole family of "manship"
I thorny, technical c.vsay. ' word.
lared for Arab unity, but
otherwise has announced it
will not be aligned and has
indicated no slavish attitude
toward Nasser despite Aref's
known admiration for the
Egyptian leader.
Internationally, it has de
clared it will keep all pre
vious agreements.
This included its contracts
with the Iraq Petroleum Co.,
a joint American and Euro
pean venture which in 1961
paid $266 million in royalties
to Iraq. It had been Kassem's
hope to nationalize the com
pany. Relations With Soviet
It also included Iraq's eco
nomic agreements with the
Soviet Union.
In this connection, it is
noteworthy that violence car
ried out by the new regime's
supporters has been almost
entirely against the Commu
nists. However, radio correspond
ents were ordered to refer
to them as "anarchists" rath
er than Communists.
The impact of this latest
revolt on the Arab world
still is to be measured. It
may give encouragement to
other pro-Nasser elements,
especially in Syria whera
such a core already exists.
Relations with the monar
chies of Saudi Arabia and
Jordan still are to be deter
mined. It may be assumed that tha
new government will be anti
Israel. Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
NEW WORDS
"I had the jitters the other
day," said a friend, "and then
I thought to myself what
a wonderful
nafS9SMim word 'jitters'
is, and 1 won
d e r e d how
it got in
the lang
uage. Nobody
really knows
the nriyins nt
J some of lha
mnel -i-i.-l-
Harris ly descriptive
words in English; they hava
no ancestry, and even no par
entage; they simply appear
one morning, fill a need ,and
persist in the body of stand
ard language.
Just as the more dubious
of genealogists will make up
a "family tree" for the newly
rich, so will some philologists
make up a phony ancestry for
words of unknown origin. In
deed, the word "phony" is a
prime example.
Nobody knows where it
came from, or how it got
info the language. Erie
Partridge, the British ety
mologist .traces it back to
Irish slang, and who is lo
contradict him? But the
truth is that nobody knows;
it has been said to origi
nate in "funny business," in
telephone," and in the name
of a Mr. Forney, who sold
imitation jewelry. At any
rate, "phony" has by now
totally supplanted the old
English "bogus."
It will surprise many that
the word "quiz" is less than
a century old, and is an ut
terly fabricated word, A
showman in Dublin once
bet an editor that he could
have the whole city talking
about a new word over
night. He sent his men out
to write "quiz" on walls
and fences all over lha
city and the next day
everyone was asking "What
is quiz?" and thus the word
has come lo mean a ques
tion of that sort.
In his book, "You English
Words," John Moore points
out that the word "slum"
presents a complete myst
ery, appearing out of no
where in the 19th century.
Dickens used it in the cur
rent sense in 1851. but no
body knows where it came
from, or why it look hold so
firmly.
In our own lime, GelcU
Burgess, the author (best
known for his quatrain "The
Purple Cow"), has invented
two words that have found
their way into permanent
English "blurb" and "bro
mide." It is extremely rare,
however, that the coinase of a
word can be credited to any
individual S;h:iL-nn-
; chanced words hot rl.Hn i in.
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