Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony...
...young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward. His secretary says proudly: "All the women love...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the surprise of jaws-ajar M.P.s guarding his London headquarters, admitted a casual visitor from the ranks, a buck private who simply said: "I'd like to see the General, if he's not too busy. Tell him I'm from Abilene, Kansas." The private was 23-year-old Walter Thorpe, once a hand on the Abilene farm owned by the General's brother. After 20 minutes of amiable talk about Kansas, the wheat crops and the Army, the General wrote a note to prove that it really happened: "Dear Thorpe...
Politely and clearly the Kremlin told Cordell Hull to keep hands off the Soviet Union's dispute with the Polish Government in Exile. Conditions had not ripened enough for U.S. participation, Moscow added, carefully leaving the door ajar...
...maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdli...