Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born. To Ann Farley Hickey, 23, daughter of ex-Postmaster General James A. Farley, and Edward John Hickey, 26: their first child (and big Jim's first grandchild), a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Ellen Louise. Weight...
...Born in London's poor East Ham district, the daughter of a plumber, Vera knew five songs, Peggy O'Neil and K-K-K-Katy among them, before she was three. At seven, she was singing, in frills and bows, for Masonic dinners and charity benefits. "A straight-faced kid, couldn't get her to smile," says her dressmaker-mother, who always went along. At school, "they thought I had a terrible voice," says Vera, "but they always put me up in front because I opened my mouth so nice and wide...
When Russian-born Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky made San Francisco sit up and take notice a year ago with his blazing performance of Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
...Spencer Love, a fast-moving, fast-thinking man who can keep thousands of details of his company's operations in his head, had earned his cockiness. He had parlayed a $3,000 shoestring into a textile empire that last year grossed $288 million (and netted $31.2 million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens...