Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Gavin has reached the maximum-pay retirement age and is now sounding off against the present armed forces setup for his own gain. If he loved his country more than self, he would serve his years of optimum value in the face of opposition...
Your article helps explain why the "American Way of Life" is not universally admired abroad. You refer to a model girl (of 16) "who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled." At what age, pray, does the average teen-age girl start drinking? At 13? And does the vicious teen-age girl start at ten? ALAN F. LOWELL
...honor was not lightly won; seldom have the pros played more brilliant basketball. For the West, little (5 ft. 10 in.) Slater Martin of St. Louis and aging (31) Dick McGuire of Detroit whistled the ball down the floor on the furious fast breaks that kept their team in the ball game. Basketball's Nijinsky, Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, still slick and sly at the tree-ripened age of 29, broke the game wide open for the East in the last five minutes when he ran up seven straight points...
...Fowler B. McConnell, 63. president since 1946 of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the world's No. 1 general store, was named chairman of the board to succeed Theodore V. Houser, 65, who announced his retirement, even though Sears would not require his retirement until age 70. (Said Houser: "I am inaugurating what I hope will become a settled practice for Sears.") McConnell is a University of Chicago graduate who joined Sears as a stock boy in 1916, returned from serving as an infantry captain in France during World War I to become assistant shoe buyer, worked his way through both...
...Artist as Priest. Schooled by Jesuits from the age of six, Jim was "God-intoxicated," and Stanislaus was keen enough to recognize that Joyce remained God-intoxicated though he changed gods. The work of art became his religious passion. It was this, says Stanislaus, that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made...