Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debbie was in high school her mother had embroidered sweaters for her with the initials N.N.-for "non-neckers." Eddie, while never one to be stopped by initials, seemed to behave, at least for a while, and did not chase around a bit more than he had as a bachelor...
...tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master for the royal family, finished third in the 1956 Olympics 5.5-meter-class competition...
...student, or, as young Stevenson wrote, just " 'K' as we soon came to call Karim." Indeed, the Harvard Yard has seen many princes come and go, without fuss, sometimes even without remembering them. In 1912 Prince Jaisinh Rao, son of the Gaekwar of Baroda, got a Harvard bachelor's degree, and in 1928 Prince Somdet Chao Fa Mahidol won his M.D. from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that his son, Phumiphon Aduldet, the present King of Thailand, was born in Cambridge-perhaps the only king born...
...Divinity School, the number of first year students has risen almost 13 per cent--from 48 to 54 new members studying for the Bachelor of Divinity degree...
...famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness is legend. When he is writing-in green ink with a quill pen-friends have to remind White...