Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manipulated for selfish ends. The late Senator McCarthy's use of deadlines and of the "unexpected" charge which could not immediately be proved false kept him in the headlines until "over-exposure" did him in. Herbert Brownell's attack on President Truman over the firing of Harry Dexter White was not released to the press until just before Brownell's speech. Then, after Truman had been forced to make a hasty denial in order to get onto the same front page with Brownell's charge, James Hagerty turned up (within hours) a six-year-old letter in which Truman...
...Martin Luther King, Minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., has been named as one of the guest preachers at Memorial Church for next year. The Southern integrationist leader will deliver the Sunday sermon on January...
Working on a new novel called Lord Timothy Dexter Revisited, a guest known as Mr. Maynard kept his identity mostly secret on a ranch in Nevada's Washoe Valley. This week, his residence requirements satisfied, Mr. Maynard will have to make himself known in order to seek a divorce (after a second marriage that has lasted 21 years) as John Phillips Marquand. Meanwhile, the 65-year-old Maynard has found another love: Nevada. It "is the last frontier of the fiction writer. This is the place for a young writer to come. What this place needs is a mute...
...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
...degree of Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude: Paul Frank Baum, Mathematics; John Paul Blass, Biochemical Sciences; Everett Clarence Dade, Mathematics; Jared Mason Diamond, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Wayne Dixon, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Allen Gorman, Government; Stanley Dale Harris, English; Leon William Hoyer, Biochemical Sciences; Jonathan Kozol, English; Dexter Wayne Lawson, Biology; Ralph Arnold Walter Lehman, Biology; James Richard Lehrich, Biology; Joseph Salem Lelyveld, History and Literature; Keith Merritt Lindgren, Biochemical Sciences; James Robert McCredie, History and Literature; Michael Ned Margolies, Biology; Calvin Cooper Moore, Mathematics;; Robert Anthony Myers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Stephen November, Economics; David Reiss...