Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape-recorded message. Queen Elizabeth II, who was bedded in London with a sinus infection, announced to wildly cheering crowds at the Empire Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great...
...shifted their ad budgets to other media. Series-type programs (which require a chunk of network time each week) are being dropped in favor of one-shot spectaculars (which occupy only 60-90 minutes a month). Some of TV's most prestigious shows have got the ax, including Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, Climax!, Wide, Wide World, Suspicion, Kraft Theater...
Among the men scheduled to speak to the course members this summer, are Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; George P. Brockway, president of W. W. Norton Company, Inc.; August Fruge, director of the University of California Press; Margaret Smith, fiction editor of Mademoiselle; Maurice Dolbier, Book Reviewer and columnist on the New York Herald-Tribune; Donald Kingsley, president of the Hous Magazine Institute...
...Edward M. Purcell was appointed this week as the first Donner Professor of Science at Harvard. Currently serving on President Eisenhower's Scientific Advisory Committee, Purcell received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in nuclear magnetism...
...Died. Edward Pearson Warner. 63. M.I.T.-trained aeronautical engineer, internationally famed air-age sage, longtime ( 1945-57 ) president of the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation (1929-35), vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; of a heart attack; in Duxbury. Mass...