Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finest Architect." Never before had the U.S. Government gone to such length to impress a foreign country with an embassy. As architect, it hired Edward Stone (TIME Cover, March 31 ), designer of the American Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. The building was dubbed the Taj Maria* for Stone's wife ("Mr. Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from...
...Died. Edward Adam Strecker, 72, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature...
...Died. Edward S. Jordan, 76, early automaker (the sporty Jordan Playboy), president (1916-31) of the Jordan Motor Car Co., which collapsed under the Depression; in Manhattan...
...Died. Edward John Noble, 76, upstate New Yorker who pooled funds with a friend, bought the Life Savers Co. in 1913 for $2,900, poked a hole in the candy mints, packaged them brightly, watched his business grow into Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. with sales well over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration...
...family was still in Russia. Morros would have liked to spring his father from the "frozen prison" of the Soviet Union, but as it was, he could not even get food packages through to him. All this changed one day in 1936 when a seedy character who called himself Edward Herbert sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken oaf called Zubilin, who said he was boss...