Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letters poured in from his former pupils. "I want you to stay in school." wrote one little girl. "You always meet us at the door." wrote another, "and are so joyful." But last week, his savings gone, 52-year-old Bachelor Andersson began looking for another job, still determined, foolishly or not, never to sign the oath. "Too many people say 'Let George do it,'" he explains, "even in matters involving defense of individual freedom. Someone has to be George." But being George is not easy. "The day goes fast," says Hjalmar Andersson quietly, "when all the children...
Married. Kwame Nkrumah, 48, U.S.-educated Prime Minister of Ghana, perennial bachelor ("Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride") who kept his vow to remain unmarried until his country achieved independence: and Fathia Halim Ritzk, about 26, a Cairo university graduate; in Accra, Ghana...
Died. John William van Druten, 56, prolific (27 plays) writer for stage and screen, top-drawer director (The King and I), novelist (The Vicarious Years); of a heart attack; in Thermal, Calif. A reserved bachelor, London-born Van Druten turned from law teaching to drama in 1926, scored flashy success with sophisticated, bittersweet comedies (The Voice of the Turtle, There's Always Juliet...
...Wright Brothers Lecture was the latest honor for jovial Bachelor Allen, 47, a dedicated NACA scientist for 21 years. When Allen suggested in 1952 that the heating problem caused by the re-entry of a ballistic missile into the earth's atmosphere might be solved by a blunt-nose cone, highly resistant to the air, many of his colleagues were skeptical. The prevailing theory backed a needle-shaped cone that would offer minimum aerodynamic drag. Allen's blunt shape built up temperatures in the tens of thousands of degrees, but it saved the cone from melting away...
Shyly genial Bachelor Inge, 44, winces at his colleagues who write plays primarily "to shock, to teach, to preach at. I hate a play that tells me what to think. I have to let the audience make up its own mind about my characters...