Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade, nor a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...primacy of Norway. Already widely known at home as editor of the magazine Kirke og Kultur (Church and Culture) and writer of a number of religious books in addition to the best-selling Spenningèns Land (an account of his life in the Arctic), he soon achieved world fame in the Universal Church movement. In 1938 he was elected president of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches...
...YEAR 1944 IS THE COMMON FIGHTING MAN. LET TIME GLORIFY NO INDIVIDUAL POLITICIAN OR GENERAL WHOSE MOMENTARY FAME MAY QUICKLY FADE. THE ISSUES OF THIS YEAR ARE BEING DECIDED BY THE BLOODY SACRIFICES OF MILLIONS OF ORDINARY HEROES...
...clock. The Duke, under the sponsorship of Spencer Fuller, will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former stars will not be on hand, his presence at the piano will be a notable occasion. Among his other claims to fame is the fact that he was the first popular musician ever to appear in Paine Hall, the University's music center...
...misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody knew: "The monster in Frankenstein." The embarrassed guest : Boris Karloff, who won fame as the movie monster...