Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives in a jungle and enchants alligators and snakes by playing a saxophone, could have been a great Shaw character had she occurred to the master half a century earlier. The father has been a great Shaw character already-he is a reincarnation of the jovial merchant of death, Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, with less wit and more money (he is a billionaire instead of a millionaire). Most of the famed Shavian paradoxes have been reduced to formula; they sound as if they had been turned out by one of Harvard's giant calculators after it had digested...
...Andrew E. Norman '51, co-chairman of the American Patriots, issued the following statement last night: "We (the American Patriots) are deeply disturbed that the men who govern our naval affairs today have so little devotion to the traditions and history of this great country that they balk and whimper that the job might be tedious. American Patriots feel as ever that no expense and no effort must be spared The Monitor must be raised. There are higher authorities than Secretary Matthews...
Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
Both male members are restauranteurs--Andrew S. Seiler (Seiler's, Wellesley) and Richard Treadway (Treadway Inns) One of the women, Mrs. John R. Abbot is a trained dietician...
...dispute over civilian v. military supremacy. The nation's Founding Fathers were rightly concerned over the danger of such a conflict. As it turned out, this issue has rarely arisen in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The most serious instance of military insubordination to governmental authority was General Andrew Jackson's seizure of Florida from the Spaniards. Only a Californian would view this act of Harry Truman's hero as a catastrophe...