Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penrose's background was in education, not politics. His father rescued Whitman College in Walla Walla (Wash.) from abandonment, served 40 years as Whitman's president. Young "Binks" Penrose went to Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
...OFFERTORY: "In theory, the whole congregation surging up into the sanctuary and presenting you, the priest, with the bread and wine, their contribution to the mysteries. Actually, in their name, a small boy emerges from the background, probably with hiccoughs; at first sight you are tempted to regard him as an unwelcome distraction, then you remember that he stands there in the name of the congregation...
...Whittaker Chambers renounced Communism in 1937. Two years later he joined TIME'S staff as a writer. TIME was fully aware of Chambers' political background, believed in his conversion, and has never since had reason to doubt it. In the past nine years Chambers has written and edited TIME stories in such varied fields as Cinema, Religion, Books, and Foreign News; in the judgment of his fellow workers, he has proved himself an outstanding journalist. TIME believes that Chambers' penetrating knowledge of the ways of Communism, at home and abroad, has been extremely valuable to TIME...
...offices (TIME, Aug. 16). Hiss had unequivocally denied that he was ever a Communist or that he had ever known Chambers. But last week he admitted that he had indeed known Chambers-although under the name of George Crosley (a pseudonym Chambers could not remember ever having used). The background of his admission made the most fascinating story of the hearings to date...
Turkeys & Bonnets. Moving on to El Morocco, the party supped on roast beef and Baked Alaska. The conversation and the champagne began to slop over a little. Society Photographer Hal Phyfe, a fastidious gourmet and a dear friend of Betty's, fluttered anxiously in the background lest photographers take unseemly shots. Two guests, both past their prime, met in the ladies' lounge. One wore a vast feathered hat, the other a bonnet and velvet chin strap. Said Feathers to Bonnet: "What kind of get-up is that, you silly old turkey?" Retorted Bonnet: "Go roll your wheel chair...