Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love, studying and teaching history. The only daughter of William Howard Taft, Helen was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr when, at the age of 18, she was called to serve as her father's hostess in the White House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage to a Yale historian, and finally a job at Bryn Mawr. She had an alarming habit of mislaying spectacles, important documents and salary checks, and a curiously housewifely approach to research ("I always put different topics on different colored pages...
This time Bachelor Boston, 35, onetime Boston University football star and Navy demolitions expert, whistled up a wind that nestled firmly in the shoulder of his sail. The sea was a glassy, green highway. Twelve pleasant days later, Boston was stretching his legs in Bermuda...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...
...autrforing their four-day-a-week column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Joseph and Stewart Alsop decided to try a "new and frankly experimental" division of effort. While Family Man Stewart, 43, stayed home in Washington to file two columns a week from Capitol Hill, Bachelor Joe, 46, decided to give readers first-hand coverage of events in Europe and the Middle East. Last week, after six months of steady travel in which he broke the news (after an interview with Khrushchev) of the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial reorganization, covered the Jordan crisis, traced the growing...
...told for fair. "Gambling, widespread and important, is back at the old stands in Jefferson Parish!" cried the front page of the New Orleans States. "It is spreading like an epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...