Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanford theologian, author of several books on Contemporary Christianity, will continue his talks throughout the week. Tonight in the fourth William Belden Noble Lecture of the 1957 series his topic will be "Our Intellectual Age.' He will discuss "The fallacy of conser vatism and the Church's debt to contemporary heretics...
...Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
This year parents will also find themselves acting as ground crews for a whole series of projectile-spewing toys. Ideal Toy Corp. is ready for the Space Age with a truck-mounted satellite launcher ($4.98) and a skysweeper ($7.98) that throws a plane's image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...
AVIATION Boeing's New Jet United Air Lines, the nation's second-largest carrier (first: American Airlines), took another step into the jet age. Last week it ordered ten Douglas DC-8 long-range and eleven new-type, Boeing 720 medium-range jet aircraft to be delivered in 1960. Total cost: $100 million, to be added to the $175 million worth of DC-8s ordered for delivery in 1959. To finance the new jet order, United got an additional $100 million in credit from a syndicate of 36 banks headed by Manhattan's First National City Bank...
...point of fact, Eloise is the most terrible enfant who ever tried to use two sticks of French bread as a pair of skis. Eloise, as thousands of half-horrified, half-fascinated readers know by now, is the child (she is six, well past the age of dissent) who resides more or less alone at the Plaza in New York, subsisting on Room Service, while Mother is off being divorced, or remarried, or something. Eloise has authorized Nightclub Comedienne and occasional Author Kay Thompson to write her biography. Two years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller...