Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Train from Berlin, was a bestseller in England and the U.S. (While still a political liberal, Smith is now embarrassed by some of the positions he took in the book, e.g., a statement that "Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw.") He replaced Edward R. Murrow in 1946 as CBS's chief European correspondent, was brought to the U.S. in 1957. Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president and news manager, calls Smith "the intellectual dean of the CBS news staff...
...Died. Edward John Baker, 90, owner of the great trotter Greyhound, millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...fails to grasp the cold-war challenge of space, the prediction of Hungarian-born Physicist Edward Teller may come dismally true. Asked what he expected the first U.S. spacemen to find when they get to the moon, Teller gave the grim reply: "Russians...
...time I've been here I have tried to do things that were correct, and to be correct you can only deal with the government to which you are accredited," said Earl Edward Tailer Smith, the stockbroker and former member of the Republican National Finance Committee (for Florida) who became U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in 1957. Being correct meant keeping in contact with Batista, and that, to the new rebel government, constituted support for Batista. Last week, after the U.S. became the twelfth country to recognize the new Cuban government, Ambassador Smith, 55, cleared the way for cordial relations...
Lampoon president Edward M. Tarlov '60 claimed that his organization had arranged the parody. "I've got 560 signatures affirming that the Fortnightly could not have possibly handled such an issue." A Fortnightly editor countered, "Humbug. People just don't believe aristocrats can be funny. We proved they are wrong...