Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life & Education: Born June 2, 1920, Dickson, Tenn., son of a druggist-turned-lawyer. Voluntarily tromped off at the age of eight to join the Methodist Church, preached his first sermon at 15. Specially tutored in public speaking by his aunt, Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems, director of Shipp School of Expression. Married Lucille Christianson at 19, passed state bar examinations (with highest grade out of 276) a year before graduating from Vanderbilt University School...
Career & Record: The FBI waived its minimum age requirement (23) to make him an agent at 22, a year later he resigned to join the Army as a private, drew only stateside training duty, was discharged a first lieutenant in 1946. Appointed chief counsel, Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission at 26, successfully fought attempts to raise cost of phone service in Tennessee and later in Georgia. Recalled to the Army in 1950, went off promising that he would run for governor in 1952. He did, became the youngest governor in the U.S. by defeating Gordon W. Browning...
...crushing process, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd noted last week, 105 Cypriot youths aged 14-18, and 13 boys under the age of 14, have been sentenced to whipping...
...ornate galleries of the Lords Chamber, usually deserted while bores speak to empty seats, were tight-packed with peeresses, dazzling in their fashionable plumage. "Backwoodsmen," who had not taken their seats for an age, limped and hobbled up from the counties to plug in hearing aids and listen to the arguments. Around the steps of the throne, there was a tight gaggle of elder sons who share with members of the Privy Council the right to squat there during sessions...
...major sociological comment of the week was that of Roosevelt University Sociologist Dr. S. Kirson Weinberg, who saw in rock 'n' roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...