Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttrick's appointment to head the committee was indicated two years ago when Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, completed an extensive study of PBH and its activities. At the time, shortly after the retirement of Dean Sperry as Chairman of the Board of Preacher's, Buck stated that Sperry's successor would be expected to head the Brooks House group...
...half year interim between Sperry's retirement and Buttrick's appointment, and the installment of a new president, however, created doubt as to whether Buck's plans would be fulfilled. PBH leaders also were puzzled when the Overseers failed to name Buttrick to the PBH chairmanship at the time of his appointment this fall to head the Board of Preachers...
Battered But Unbowed. The hero of the great Hemingway legend was still not sufficiently recovered from his accident to travel to Stockholm for his latest, biggest honor (hitherto awarded only to five other American-born writers: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot and William Faulkner). Furthermore, the first announcement of the Nobel award and the bustle of publicity that followed had thrown Hemingway off his writing pace. He took to his boat in hopes of getting back to work on his new novel about Africa. "I was going real good, better than for a long...
...invited the scared Brothers, self-professed keepers of the Moslem tradition, to explain precisely certain passages of the Koran. When they faltered, he sneered: "You call yourselves soldiers of God!" Under his searing tongue, the accused abjectly passed the buck to one another. Mahmoud Abdul Latif, the little tinsmith who fired eight wild shots at Nasser in Alexandria a month ago, burst into tears and sobbed that he was but a dupe led on by clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef...
...Major General Charles T. (for Trueman) Lanham, 52, famed as the "prototype" for Ernest Hemingway's Montgomery*-gulping Colonel Richard Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees, was named president of Market Relations Network, Inc., Manhattan publicity firm. A West Pointer, "Buck" Lanham was given command of the 4th Infantry Division's 22nd Regiment shortly after Dday. The division, with Hemingway attached to it as a correspondent, saw plenty of action (e.g., the Normandy breakthrough, Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge), and Lanham received a chestful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he became...