Word: famed
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Once an Italian journalist asked him about his tragically flawed character: "How is it that you, who merited fame as a seer, did not see?" Ezra Pound could not answer...
Sprung to fame as the nemesis of Alger Hiss, Nixon ran for the Senate in 1950 against liberal-wing Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas), defeated her in what he called a "rocking, socking campaign." It featured Nixon's documented allegation that her voting record resembled that of New York's Commu nist-lining Congressman Vito Marcantonio-a charge originally hurled at Candidate Douglas not by Nixon but by an opponent in the Democratic primary...
...executive editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, Ashmore won fame for courage and reason during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. Two years later Ashmore went to work for the Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
...Contemporary Art, which twelve years ago brought Austria's most famous expressionist painter, Oskar Kokoschka, to American museums, is now doing the same for his contemporary, Egon Schiele. Hopefully, this will do as much for Schiele as the previous exhibit did of Kokoschka, for undoubtedly Schiele deserves the international fame he has never received...
Vanderford's main claim to fame is a white beard that combines with a baseball cap and sports shirt to give him a resemblance to that bullock-befriending bard, Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. Vanderford plays his part to the hilt, occasionally signs Hemingway's name for autograph seekers (growls Papa: "I don't care if he signs my name as long as he doesn't sign checks"), and passes out cards bearing his picture, true name and coy inscriptions, reading in Spanish, "Although two drops of water look alike, they are different," and in English, "Everyone...