Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social? Walter Rauschenbusch died of cancer in 1918 at the age of 56, broken in spirit by World War 1, rejected by many Americans because of his German background and his attempts to keep the U.S. from fighting. Later his Social Gospel became so powerful that it took U.S. Protestantism to opposite extremes: churches sometimes seemed to be turning into sanctified civic-betterment societies...
...silver-haired Anne Wheaton (age: "past 60"), it meant a succession of grueling, twelve-hour days, with twice-daily press briefings punctuated by countless queries from individual newsmen. Since she does not have Hagerty's firsthand knowledge of top-level decisions, the answers often involved some digging, as well as canny hedging in a time of rapidly shifting events. By week's end a lot of paper had flowed through the mimeograph, but Annie still looked fresh, good-humored and full of bounce...
...Wyeth was an illustrator; for decades before his death in an auto crash in 1945, he was the best illustrator in the country. An age that tends to value "composition" (meaning, roughly, an apparent rhythm, repetition and balance of lines and colors, comparable to harmonious music) above all else tends to belittle illustration (which subordinates all other values to imaginative drama). Yet, historically, illustration is half of art, and the greatest paintings of Europe have been illustrations of classical mythology and the New Testament...
Died. James Edwin (Ted) Meredith, 65, fleet-footed oldtime track champion who won fame at the age of 20 by setting a world record for the 800-meter run at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, later set the 440-and 880-yd. records, also served as an income-tax-delinquent hunter; after long illness; in Camden...
...Colin's latest book alone that accounted for the waspish notices. Since success plucked at his turtlenecked sweater, Author Wilson has revealed a bumptious streak of humorless selfimportance: "I am the most serious man of our age." Early this year, the most serious man of our age proved that life can be dangerous for an Outsider inadvertently caught indoors (TIME, March 4). His girl friend's father nearly scrambled the egghead with a horsewhip after bursting in on the cozy couple with some gaslit stage dialogue: "Aha, Wilson, the game...