Has Anyone Seen Gloria Lockerman?  November 24, 1987|By Bob
Greene.  The question, posed here several weeks ago, was: ``What
is the significance of the following word:
`Antidisestablishmentarianism`?``  The winner of the contest-the
first person to come up with the right answer-is Fred Tragemann,
40, a restaurant manager who lives in Wheaton.  Many readers
phoned and wrote with the definition of  ``antidisestablishment
arianism.`` (Believe me, you don`t want to know.)  But I did not
ask for the definition of ``antidisestablishmentarianism.`` I
asked for the significance of ``antidisestablishmentarianism.``
Many readers said that the significance was that the word was
the longest one in the English language. But other readers
pointed out that there are longer words than
``antidisestablishmentarianism.``  So what is the significance
of the word?  The significance is that, in 1955, the nation sat
enthralled as a 12-year-old schoolgirl from Baltimore spelled
``antidisestablishmentarianis m``  correctly on Americ