Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle name, thus should not have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini: "I am not a magician, but a mystifier." General Electric Co.'s Wizard Charles Steinmetz...
...Died. Bernard J. (Bernie) Wefers, 84, known in the 18903 as the "world's fastest human" for his unofficial record (9.4 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash (shaved to 9.3 sec. in 1948) and national champion in the 100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes in 1895, '96 and '97; in New York City...
...Bernard D. Davis, present chairman of the Department of pharmacology at the New York University College of Medicine, has been appointed professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at the University and head of the department of the same title at the Medical School...
...villa of Bernard Berenson '87, noted art critic, will be left to Harvard upon Berenson's death, John Coolidge, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, said yesterday. Berenson is in his early nineties...
Eric Martin as the "fleshy poet," "with a love for admiration," originally modelled after lilytoting Oscar Wilde--handles his focal part with humour and almost no difficulties, although he did not project as well as might be desired. John Bernard as the "idyllic poet," is absolutely perfect as actor and singer, as he transfers from Renaissance Apollo to a "common, ordinary fellow...