Word: conways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vickers Valiant is Britain's first long-range A-bomber to hit the production line. And to back up its short-range Viscount in the battle for airline supremacy, Vickers designers are at work on the Vickers 1,000, a huge swept-wing transport with four Rolls Royce Conway bypass engines, designed to carry 150 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic...
Married to Actor-Director Curt Conway, Actress Stanley has a three-year-old daughter and a year-old son, commutes 40 miles to her home in Centerport, L.I. Now a full-fledged Broadway star-her name was shifted to the top of the marquee and billboards after the opening-night notices-she insists: "I don't feel any different. I still want to spend as much time as I can with my children. They need me a great deal, at their...
Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...TheU.S. is well on the way to a nervous breakdown, declared the Rev. Edward Aloysius Conway, S.J., associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound...
Eliot House's tutors, led by the universally respected John Conway, Aliston Burr Senior Tutor, are good. The present tutorial staff is particularly strong in English, Government, and History...