Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace Editor Crowther the Economist will bring in Donald Tyerman, 47, onetime Economist writer and deputy editor (1937-44). Later, Tyerman joined the London Times, moved up to deputy editor. Like Crowther, Tyerman is a liberal in politics and a conservative in economics; thus the Economist's slightly left-of-center line is unlikely to change. But Crowther will be around to lend a hand if necessary. Says he: "I'm not disinteresting myself in any part of the paper...
...complete list of House ticket distributors follows: Adams--Peter O. Sellar '58; Dudley--Thomas F. Crowley '57; Dunster--Fred E. Nickerson '56; Eliot--Robert A. Bowman '57; Kirkland--R. Allen Williams '57; Leverett--Lyle R. Grittle '58; Lowell--Charles H. Thomas '57; and Winthrop--Donald Chapman...
Thus British Critic Cyril Connolly once described two flagrant and flamboyant British traitors: Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 44, and Donald Duart Maclean, 42. Last week the British government, prodded by the revelations of Vladimir Petrov, the Russian MVD boss who defected in Australia, told a bit more about the British spies who escaped in 1951 and are now apparently alive somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The 3,500-word white paper was not the whole story, but with the facts contributed by Petrov, it made possible for the first time a cohesive account of The Case of the Missing...
Recruited. Their treason began in the middle '30s at Cambridge, where apparently wild-minded Guy Burgess, the well-schooled son of a Royal Navy officer, first met Donald Maclean, son of a former Cabinet minister and a young man with a promising future. Both moved in Communist circles. It was just before the Spanish Civil War, and both were outspoken in their dissatisfaction with the conduct of world affairs, Maclean to the point of declaring that he wanted to work for the Russians. It was at this time, says Petrov, that they were recruited into the Soviet espionage service...
...Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan...