Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for your review of The Age of Roosevelt-Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s latest. You very properly ask: "But is it history?" Many Harvard graduates wonder how a mere apologist came to occupy the chair of a professor of history on an otherwise distinguished faculty...
...Colonel Loughlin, who calls himself a "bird colonel foot soldier," joined the 81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division in 1917, saw action a few weeks before the Armistice. He was retired. because of age (60) in 1942, later recalled to command a P.W. camp in Jackson, Miss, until he retired for good...
...towering ($282 million) surplus. In the House of Commons last week, Harris produced his solution. By eliminating some nuisance taxes and easing the rules on income-tax deductions, he will cut receipts next year by an estimated $55 million. Spending will be increased for such items as old-age pensions and mothers' allowances (Canada's famed "Baby Bonus") to help slim down next year's surplus to $152 million...
...entire operation from opening the chest to putting the last stitches in it-"skin to skin," as surgeons call it-had taken 3½ hours. After five weeks the patient went back to work. His heart no longer pounds unbearably; he can be as active as most men his age...
...people who read confession magazines, says Macfadden Publications, are "Wage-Town" folks. More than 80% of readers are women, mostly married and in the 25-30 age group. Slightly more than 50% finished high school. Their income levels are below-average. Thus, the confession slicks never indulge in drawn-out, complex psychological unravelings or high-flown dialogue...