Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anatomy of Happiness. Do wealth and fame bring happiness? To Betty Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with no raise in salary and no provision for outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want...
Last week, the university filled Harrison's place with a second public figure-former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, 73. He had graduated from the Pennsylvania law school summa cum laude in 1898, taught on its faculty until 1918, won fame as a prosecutor during the Teapot Dome scandals. On Hoover's Supreme Court, he had found himself a liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading...
...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
Died. Tommy Ryan (real name: Joseph Youngs), 78, prizefighter of the skin-tight glove era, who won fame in 1891 when he knocked out Danny Needham in the 76th round, retired as middleweight champion of the world in 1907; in Los Angeles...
...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...