Word: eva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she was appointed to the U.S. Senate two months ago to succeed the late Dwight Griswold (TIME, April 26), Nebraska Rancher Eva Bowring adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ride the fence awhile until I find where the gates are." Last week Senator Bowring found a gate and rode through at full gallop...
Back in University Hall is the office of Miss Eva F. Wooks, secretary to Dean Leighton, and a 39-year employee of the University. Among her other duties, Miss Weekn keeps all the records of the Administrative Board, and consequently is, in Leighton's words, "the current historian of Harvard College...
...Mountbatten, 35, who is closely related to both Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. It was not, however, the marquess' royal family ties which troubled Romaine; she had charged earlier that he was even more closely related (through connecting hotel suites) to eye-filling Hungarian Cinemactress Eva (A Tale of Five Women) Bartok...
Lessons in Washington. While she was in the capital, Eva Jenkins saw little of her husband outside the hearing room. He was working an 18-hour day, holding conferences, interviewing witnesses, and studying the case after the public sessions ended. At first there was more homework than he was able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been...
...Jenkins' red brick mansion in fashionable Sequoyah Hills, where there had been no television set until the week that the call came from Washington, Mrs. Eva Jenkins watched with fascination. In their 28 years of marriage, she had never before seen her husband trying a case. After a few days of TV, she flew to Washington to watch him in person...