Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LLEWELLYN JONES, by Paul Hyde Banner (372 pp.; Scribner; $4.50), brings back the amateurish but pleasantly diverting ex-diplomat who specializes in novels (S.P.Q.R., Excelsior!) about the kind of foreign affairs that set ambassadorial medals ajingle. The latest hero to pop out of Author Bonner's undiplomatic pouch is Townsend Britton, who is on the mossy side of 50; he is tall, athletic and handsome, but his soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that...
Ruts 2 & 11. In Baltimore, the TV section of the Sun listed, for the same hour on the same night on different channels: "The Texan (Bill Langley is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With Rory Calhoun. Film.)" and "Restless Gun (Vint Bonner is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With John Payne. Film...
...with interest that I read of the proposed congressional investigation of the collision of two foreign-flag vessels outside U.S. territorial waters [;Aug 6]. If one is to project the righteous trumpetings of Representative Bonner on the subject of protecting the American traveler abroad, will the death of a U.S. citizen in a train wreck in Buenos Aires necessitate a congressional investigation of the Argentine State Railways...
Biologist Bonner's statement concerning the practicability of domesticating some algae-eating animal (a "sea pig") as a source of meat for the highly populated world of the future [May 28], recalls a description of the manatee, or sea cow, which the Spaniards apparently saw for the first time in the islands of the Caribbean Sea and noted by Francisco López de Gómara in 1552: "The flesh of the manatee tastes more like meat than like fish. When fresh it tastes like veal and when salted, like tunny, but is better and keeps well...
Montana. Bitterest Democratic contest was for the gubernatorial nomination. The winner: Attorney General Arnold Olsen, 39, vigorous, controversial antagonist of Montana's oil. railroad and utility interests, who defeated ex-Governor (1948-53) John W. Bonner and looks forward to a hard fight with Republican Governor J. Hugo Aronson in November...