Word: alden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet American, he has translated his journalist's impressions into one of his novelistic moral conundrums. The attempt of the U.S. to find what he calls a "Third Force" between French colonialism and military Communism, is personified in Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous...
Cell at the Trib. Other witnesses were less cooperative. Alden Whitman, 42, a Times copyreader since 1951, admitted having been a Communist from 1935 through 1948, but refused to name any other party members. After tough questioning, Counsel Sourwine pried out of him the admission that he had belonged to a Communist cell with "perhaps a half-dozen members" on the New York Herald Tribune while working there as a copyreader from 1943 to 1951. The Trib, which had been giving the hearings the splashiest play in town, grabbed Sourwine right after the session and later quoted him: "We have...
...past, the constitution of the Harvard Club provided that any lady having "Harvard affiliations" could have club privileges, but, as Alden H. MacIntyre, '21 pointed out, "The Radcliffe Club never raised the point. Perhaps they wanted the privileges now that Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges are so close scholastically...
Within an hour, Stevenson, one of his law partners, his press secretary, a bone specialist and Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, his former wife's mother, were on the way to Goshen in a chartered plane. The next day, the weary and worn father rode in an ambulance with his son the 115 miles to a Chicago hospital, where the boy's mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes...
...Alden Carpenter, Bob Holmes, and Erich Segal crossed the finish line 27th, 29th, and 34th respectively out of about 50 runners. Nick Costes and Jack Kelley, both formerly from Boston University, tied for first place, but the Boston Athletic Association won the race...