Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dolly O'Brien, 70, belle of Palm Beach from the '20s to the '40s, whose ageless blonde beauty, irrepressible wit and $5,000,000 worth of yeast from her second husband, Julius Fleischmann, so charmed the swains that Clark Gable, among others, proposed to her when she was well past 50 but was turned down as husband No. 4 because she could not countenance moving to Hollywood; after a succession of strokes; in West Palm Beach...
...COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal issue of whether a man, about to hang for a murder he did not commit, should be punished for killing the hangman...
...wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s. Looking back, the hunger for faith in Eliot's early poems now seems obvious and his religious development inevitable. In 1927-the same year he became a British subject-he was confirmed in the Church of England...
...story, based on a popular Italian play, relishes every step of a slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed. At 17, driven by wartime necessity, Filomena meets Domenico on the job. In her 20s, he sets her up in a little flat. In her 30s, he takes her home to care for his invalid mother. In her 40s, Filomena is running his business and his house, and Domenico at 50 is still running around...
Most of the other cover couples were government leaders and their wives, such as George V of England and Queen Mary back in the '20s and '30s, or John F. Kennedy (who appeared seven times) and Jackie (Jan. 20, 1961). Among the few nongovernmental couples on the list are the notable names of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife Abby Aldrich, and Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa, who was the subject of a cover story (Dec. 22, 1930) that told how she cared for her great but absent-minded husband. Other couples, such as Alfred Lunt...