Word: ernest
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Thus, in just about the shortest story he ever wrote, Ernest Hemingway 40 years ago described King Constantine and Queen Sophia as they were clinging to the unstable throne of Greece. Last week Constantine's son, King Paul, was also in his gardened palace at Tatoi, outside Athens, and the whiskey was still good. But unlike his father, Paul did not want to go to America. He wanted to go to Britain, and his Premier would not let him, thereby precipitating a first-class political crisis...
Divorced. Ernest Borgnine, 45, gap-toothed, Oscar-winning cinemactor (Marty); by Katy Jurado, 39, tabasco-tempered Mexican cinemactress (High Noon); on grounds of cruelty; after 31 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...this is a work of belles-lettres, in which Algren appears in the ambiguous role of the anti-intellectual intellectual. The spectacle of a literary man proving that he is hairier than a Rotarian is sadly familiar in the history of American letters, most notably in the person of Ernest Hemingway, who was prone to discuss literature as if it were a branch of fisticuffs. Algren goes the old master one worse by writing about books and boxing as if both were rackets...
GEORGE GALLUP ROBERT M. GANGER WILLIAM F. GIBBS ALTHEA GIBSON SOPHIE GIMBEL DONALD A. GLASER BARRY GOLDWATER RUTH GORDON CHARLES H. GOREN CRAWFORD H. GREENEWALT GEORGE H. GRIBBIN ERNEST GRUENING MRS. WINSTON GUEST HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM
...Commons debate on Dr. Richard Beeching's drastic reorganization program for the nation's ailing, anachronistic railway system (TIME, April 5), Labor, which decried the government's plans as "political" window dressing, set up a crescendo of jeers that thoroughly rattled the Tory advocate, Transport Minister Ernest Marpies. But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone. They claim that Beeching's plan, which includes closing down one third of the whole system, may do more harm than good...