Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C. VARNER, U.S.N...
...looked as though ol' Happy had things sized up about right. Last week the honeymoon ended. Unloving Kentucky Democrats unmercifully dropped Happy's hand-picked candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, ex-Representative Joseph B. Bates, 62. Winner by a resounding plurality of 81,000: Senator Earle C. Clements, the incumbent whose political career Chandler had promised...
...diamonds and indulgent husbands. Caught sailing for Europe last week with a middle-aged chap, altar-prone Peggy, first married in 1912 and still on the sunny side of 70, confessed that her companion is No. 6 and that for the past three years she has been Mrs. Andrew C. Meyer. Manhattan Banker Meyer, a bachelor until Peggy landed him, smiled fearlessly while his wife did most of the talking...
...movie ratings published by the Legion of Decency (AI unobjectionable for general patronage; A-II, for adults only; B, objectionable in part; C, condemned) have not, Dulles points out, the force of ecclesiastical law, as does the Index of Forbidden Books. The legion's recommendations are designed merely to help Catholics form their own consciences about what movies to see. But movie-going is "no exception to the general principle that before we perform an act we must assure ourselves that we are not committing sin ... The mere fact that I could probably attend a given picture without falling...
...businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan's C. V.Starr and Co. His company's losses totaled nearly $5,000,000 before the Reds were satisfied. Said Miner: "Our companies were wrung dry like dishrags until we had lost everything...