Word: famed
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...Middle. Standing somewhere between the N.A.A.C.P. and Snick is the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 33. A persuasive, emotional speaker, King won national fame in 1956 as the leader of the successful effort to integrate the buses of Montgomery, Ala. King, an advocate of the Gandhian technique of nonviolence, is head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a diffuse collection of some 65 local civil rights groups in the South...
...first time welcomed into its top twelve her sister. Princess Stanislas Radziwill, and her Palm Beach-Manhattan shopping consort, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Among repeaters from last year was Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who moved a lovely leg up a rung toward the poll's Fashion Hall of Fame-the Olympus of three-time win ners entered last week by boyishly elegant Actress Audrey Hepburn and Mrs. Norman Winston, the part Cherokee Indian, Paris-based wife of the international real estate dealer...
Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...opening game against Wheaton, whose major claim to athletic fame is that it is in Red Grange's home town, seemed to be an easy win for the Eastern as they led 42-32 at half-time. How ever, a Wheaton rally cut the margin to four, 35-31, with three minutes to play before the Crimson righted itself. Captain Gary Borchard led the scoring with 23 points, highest for any Harvard player in the tournament. Three other players, Kelley with 19, Gene Augustine with 14 and Joe Deering with 10 also were in double figures...
...BURNT-OUT CASE, by Graham Greene. A world-renowned architect, who has arrived at the feeling that fame and the love of many women are not sufficient to warm his cooling soul, finds the touch of life again among the inhabitants of an African leprosarium...