Word: career
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fabian grows old-18 or 19, that is-he will still have the movies. The boy's notion that he might like to have a crack at college is something Marcucci should be able to handle. There is only one danger that may yet spoil a potentially brilliant career: all of a sudden, Fabian has decided that he would really like to learn how to sing...
Georgetown University's courtly Tibor Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound...
Died. Henry Prather Fletcher, 86, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders who parlayed his wartime glory into a career (1902-29) as a poker-and polo-playing diplomat, while Ambassador to Chile and later Mexico deftly deflated anti-Americanism with a caustic wit, served (1934-36) as a bumbling Old Guard chairman of the Republican National Committee when the party got its most disastrous defeats by the New Deal; in Newport...
...teaching career began at a small college in Memphis, Tennessee, where he stayed for two years before going to Princeton to direct the creative arts program...
...writing career began when he was still an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University...