Word: cecile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Cecil Elaine Highland, 80, wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news...
West Virginia. Personable, boyish Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime biology teacher and at 34 a veteran of twelve years in the legislature, promised a pack of reforms, e.g., an end to state-employee shakedowns, proposed a new era of Eisenhower Republicanism, took oath of office as haughty outgoing Democrat William Marland looked on unsmilingly...
...oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore the pendant during the Revolutionary War campaigns. Said Mount Vernon Director Charles Cecil Wall: "We think this miniature should be the recognized portrait of Martha Washington-the way the American people should remember her, instead of as a grey-haired old lady with a fussy...
...marry his daughter. Lady Dorothy Cavendish. Through his marriage, Macmillan acquired links with one of the few remaining great families which (as left-wing politicians like to say) "control the Tory Party." His wife's brother married a sister of Lord Salisbury, a member of the great Cecil family who have been advisers and ministers to Britain's Kings since the first Elizabeth. Through these connections, Macmillan is related to at least 200 members of the ruling class-in Commons, the Lords, and the higher reaches of the civil and foreign services...
SEPTEMBER. New Ivy League fashion craze, begun in Eliot House, sweeps the nation--black shirts. Cecil B. DeMille arrested by Moscow Secret Police for conspiring to overthrow the government. Says De Mille, "It was Stanislavski technique." Arthur Darby Nock denies that he is a living reincarnation. States he, "I am Arthur Darby Nock." Is given a Ford Grant to prove...