Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insisted there was solid evidence (though it could not be specific) that the Johns Hopkins pundit, who has been under McCarthyist and McCarran committee fire for alleged pro-Communist activities, was planning a visit to the Iron Curtain domain. Retorted Lattimore, once a darling of State's Far Eastern experts: "Midsummer madness...
...became superintendent of the Erie's rough, tough ore-and steel-hauling Youngstown district. He was tough enough to shoot up, in eleven years, to eastern district manager. But he was also sentimental; in 1938, when he got an offer as general manager of the Virginian, he wept on telling a close friend: "I'm leaving the Erie...
Word leaked out that the State Department early this month instructed customs men at U.S. points of departure to keep their eyes peeled for an ex-diplomat and Far Eastern expert who once traveled broadly and freely: Johns Hopkins Professor Owen Lattimore, who has no passport to leave...
...makes the middies a red-hot favorite for next week's final Olympic trials to be held at Worcester (Mass.), with Yale and Harvard (see below) plus other independent rowing clubs joining in an effort to upset Navy. If the middies win, they will be the first Eastern crew to represent the U.S. in the Olympics since 1924. But win or lose, last week's sweep was a particularly happy day for Navy's Rusty Callow, dean of crew coaches. A year ago on the turbulent Ohio, in Callow's first year at Annapolis, all three...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...