Word: bassett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Jack Buchanan, fiftyish, versatile British song & dance man, stage & screen director-producer; and Susan Bassett, 30; each for the second time; in Salisbury, Conn...
...their efforts; it is a commentary on the writing of American history that most of the men themselves are unknown. There are volumes on the staff officers of Robert E. Lee, but who, aside from students, knows George Wythe and John Blair, James Wilson, Luther Martin, William Paterson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom or Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer? Something is wrong with any definition of greatness that excludes them...
Last week, ex-Mayor Stranger was back home again. With him and the new mayor, Frank Dibben, some of Southampton's 25,000 school children were lined up in the Bassett Green schoolyard (see cut) to wish a merry Christmas to far-off Chambersburg and to collect their share (five apiece) of the ripe, red-cheeked Pennsylvania apples that tasted as sweet as a promise made and kept...
Died. John Bassett Moore, 86, No. 1 U.S. authority on international law, first U.S. member of the World Court (1921-28); after long illness; in Manhattan. Moore, whose eight-volume Digest of International Law is the bible of the field, was no One-Wonder, argued back in 1933 that the "new" internationalism's efforts to guarantee peace merely assured the worldwide scope of future wars...
...time since 1938 (when he went to the West Indies), was getting precisely what he wanted-a "real change" and a rest, on doctor's orders. At the end of the week he was off to historic, colonial Williamsburg, Va., and Friend John D. Rockefeller's restored "Bassett Hall," for more of the same...