Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel is a Democrat, "but anyone who's Margaret's choice is O.K. with me!" Did Prize Bachelor Daniel bring any musical talent to the musical Trumans? Grinned Margaret: "He sings very nicely-a high baritone." Added Daniel: "I now sing in the shower. Before I got my ulcer, I used to sing at parties...
...written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps notebooks full of them, from which came his first click, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake (1950). Bachelor Merrill's income (currently $300,000) does not depend on inspiration: Mambo Italiano was turned out for Mitch Miller, who wanted a dialect mambo for Rose mary Clooney. Tina Marie was ordered by Perry Como, who "wanted a rhythm song." "It's a job and I do it," says...
...Egan brothers became quiz stars because Bachelor William got mad at Garry Moore: "I was watching I've Got a Secret one night, and the man's secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...
...Baptist minister with two bachelor's degrees (Morehouse College, the University of Chicago), an M.A. from Harvard and a divinity degree from the Rochester Theological Seminary, Johnson was already familiar with Howard's predicament. Though known as "the capstone of Negro education," it was scarcely a third-rate institution. Only two of its eight schools were accredited. The plant was run down; its annual appropriation from the Government was heading into ever-mounting opposition from Southern Congressmen. Running Howard would have been a tough task for any man, but it seemed especially...
Arnold received his Bachelor's degree from Centre College and his Master's from Columbia. He also holds a Th.M. degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has taught at State Teachers College, Bridgewater, Mass., for 30 years...