Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Edens, however, Duke should go even farther. The Tennessee-born president, onetime-teacher in a one-room schoolhouse who rose to become associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board, wants to make Duke's graduate schools stronger still. "Our intellectual resources in the South," says he, "exceed all other resources. Yet none of these resources has been more neglected at the highest level." Founder Duke had wanted his university to be one of the nation's top producers of "preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these . . . can do most to uplift mankind." President...
Curiously Unreal. The $1,500 first prize went to German-born Max Beckmann, 65, whom Hitler denounced and hounded out of Germany as a "degenerate" painter. Beckmann's big Fisherwomen was far from being the jut-jawed old master's best or most ambitious work, but ft did show his genius for color as well as his penchant for whipping cruelty and tenderness together into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold...
...Texas-born Henry Frnka had a hankering for Texas material, especially big, hard-playing fellows. In his fourth year at Tulane he had succeeded in coming by 20 of them, complete with boots and ten-gallon hats. He also beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength...
...Born. To Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as ranking male descendant of Christopher Columbus, holds the hereditary title of Admiral of the Indies ; and former Anunciada Gorosabely Ramirez, 23, Madrid socialite: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Cristobal Colon, 17th Marquess of Jamaica. Weight...
Married. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 45, British-born political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four'); and Sonia Brownell, 30, an editor of London's highbrow literary monthly, Horizon; he for the second time ; in 'a London hospital where he is suffering from tuberculosis...