Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though occupying an area the size of Ireland, Sierra Leone is relatively rich (diamonds, iron ore), achieved fame of a kind after Novelist Graham Greene served there as an intelligence officer during World War II, used it as a setting for The Heart of the Matter. As a going-away present Britain agreed to $21 million in loans and aid. Signing the agreement, Prime Minister Margai said fervently: "We hope we shall never be in a position for Her Majesty's government to regret what we have done here. We shall ever be friends of Britain...
Feeling No Pain. To the Post, Dorothy was a "colossus of gainful employment," daily parading in fame and trailed by envy. At the very start of its first article the Post lifted an eyebrow at the fact that Reporter Kilgallen covered New York's 1957 welcome to Queen Elizabeth from "the lonely splendor" of a limousine in the official procession up Broadway. (Says Dorothy: "What's wrong with that? I rented a limousine, and some darling generals and police captains were nice enough to let my car swing into line with the procession.") "At 47," said the Post...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). G. B. Shaw's report on the attempted taming of a typically Shavian rogue. Captain Brassbound's Conversion stars Christopher Plummer and Greer Garson...
...hanging from bent poles," Anna Lou does well-with an audio engineer's help. Harper and a magazine photographer return with her in triumph to New Bethel, Pa., and dredge up material for a cover story. Back in New York, Anna Lou (now Beth Adams) is bathed in fame on a TV show, more fame as singer of the top tune on the charts...
...guest room, she threatened to burn down his villa "because the temple has been profaned. Flame alone can purify it." But there was nothing preposterous about the poet when he left his muse and Duse to go to the wars. In 1915 D 'Annunzio was living on his fame in Paris, a revered symbol of Italy's risorgimento. but also a plumping man of 52. and no one would have blamed...