Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninspiring nine-man, one-woman field of candidates will face Bostonians voting in tomorrow's preliminary Mayoralty election. Faced with ranting of School Committee Member Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the arrogance of former Redevelopment Administrator Edward J. Logue, and seven non-entities in the race, voters would do well to choose Secretary of State Kevin H. White...
...remained for the U.S. to hone speculation to its finest edge, and not surprisingly. "Of all the peoples in history," observed Economist J. Edward Meeker in 1930, "the American people can least afford to condemn speculation. The discovery of America was made possible by a loan based on the collateral of Queen Isabella's crown jewels, and at interest beside which even call-loan interest rates look coy and bashful. Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language...
...when Geneticist George Beadle was teaching at Caltech, University of Chicago Law Dean Edward H. Levi persuaded him to give up a life of scholarship and research to take the Chicago presidency. A few years later, when the University of California sought out Levi as chancellor at Berkeley, Beadle told Levi, then Chicago's provost: "If you want to run a university, why don't you take my place and run this one?" Levi stayed on at Chicago-and last week he was named by its trustees to succeed Beadle, who will retire next year. Levi will become...
Died. Rupert Edward Cecil Guinness, Earl of Iveagh, 93, fifth-generation boss of Guinness Stout, world's second largest brewer (just after Anheuser-Busch), who took over Ireland's largest private employer in 1927, plunged into export trade, saturating British pubgoers with "My Goodness, My Guinness" billboards, and before retiring in 1962 made it the world's largest beer exporter; in Woking, England...
...Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...