Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious moments, V.F.W. members crammed into Boston Arena to cast votes for: 1) old-age pensions for World War I veterans, 2) keeping the atomic bomb secret; against: 1) increased immigration, 2) Communists on the ballot, 3) taking a stand on merger of the armed services. As their next national commander the veterans chose Oregon's Louis E. Starr, 48, World War I infantryman, Portland lawyer. World War II veterans failed to win a major national office...
This week, Gonzalez' attractive blonde wife Rosa and his two teen-age daughters were bustling about their six-room apartment, anticipating the move to La Moneda (Chile's White House) on Nov. 4. Moving day would not be too burdensome. La Moneda is only across the street...
Savage and Sophomoric. No one knows exactly how Henry Morgan got that way. "I was born at an early age," says he, "of mixed parents-male & female." That was 31 years ago. Some time after becoming a radio page boy, he changed his name from Henry Lerner von Ost to Morgan ("I borrowed it from a dance-hall bouncer"). Before he joined the Army Air Forces in 1943, his nightly jabberwocky, sometimes savage, sometimes sophomoric, had drawn millions of New York fans, including Fred Allen and Norman Corwin. (Says Corwin: "He is a great, great artist-better than he knows...
...years of age, the New Yorker was feeling grown-up and responsible. Until last week, it had generally managed to confine its twinges of social conscience to an occasional sententious One-World outburst on a page usually devoted to more urbane - or supercilious - matter. It seemed to believe that no one should talk in a loud voice about anything. But last week Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker's butterfly-watching dandy, was a man with a message...
...cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...