Word: dunbars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Washington's Dunbar High School, an excellent though then segregated institution known for the number of students that it sent to Ivy League colleges, Brooke attended Howard University, where he cut an enviable swath with the coeds and was president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest Negro social fraternity. Because of an early inclination toward medicine, he majored in chemistry and zoology, graduating in 1941. On Pearl Harbor day, he was called into the Army as an R.O.T.C.-trained second lieutenant, was assigned to the all-Negro 366th Combat Infantry Regiment. He saw combat action in Italy...
...Aalto, for example, but the sausage-shaped arms and headrest owe more to Le Corbusier. Hans Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...
...Timor Mortis conturbat me," wrote the 15th century Scottish poet William Dunbar, and he continued...
Died. Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, 82, British World War I naval hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland...
...G.B.S., by Janet Dunbar. She wasn't gay, witty or pretty-qualities Shaw admired extravagantly in other women-but her quiet nature excellently balanced...