Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...dinner with a group of undergraduates this spring, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Edgar Pierce Emeritus Professor of Psychology, was commenting with delight on the University's provision of special funds for professors emeritus. "That's so Harvardian," he exclaimed, but then checked himself: "Of course I'm not really a Harvard man; I've only been here since 1922." Despite being such a newcomer to Harvard, Boring guided the Department of Psychology for a generation, a distinction he shares only with William James. Beyond that, as author of two classics in psychology for a generation, a distinction he shares only with...
...Clipper (Old Joe Kennedy's gift) have held tag Nos. 9 and 10. They will move up to replace the No. 2 dog, Jefferson, otherwise known as Little Beagle Johnson, owned by Vice President Johnson, and the No. 3 dog. G. Boy, owned by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. After July 1. Little Beagle will carry tag No. 4 and G. Boy will be wearing...
GEORGE BALANCHINE HARRY A. BATTEN HARRY BELAFONTE EZRA TAFT BENSON EDGAR BERGEN MILTON BERLE EUGENE R. BLACK EUGENE CARSON BLAKE ROGER BLOUGH RICHARD BOONE SPRUILLE BRADEN OMAR N. BRADLEY JOHN W. BRICKER CHARLES H. BROWER HERBERT BROWNELL JR. DAVE BRUBECK DON BUDGE MARY I. BUNTING ARLEIGH A. BURKE LEO BURNETT AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. JAMES F. BYRNES
...Died. Edgar Montillion Woolley, 74, onetime Yale drama professor whose magnificent white beard ("the historic trademark of genius") and outrageously imperial mien made him the perfect Man Who Came to Dinner, a role he first played on Broadway in 1939, continued on stage, screen, TV and in private for the rest of his life; of kidney and heart ailments; in Albany...