Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Mason," announced the British Information Services, "may soon become famous as a fashion artist. . . ." Basis for this conjecture: Cinema-Hard-Guy Mason had designed some ladies' scarves which were now turning up for sale in stores. Pictured by Actor Mason on the scarves: Noel Coward, the Masons' pet cats, James Mason & wife...
Governor Gruening (pronounced greening) was born (1887) in New York City. His father, Dr. Emil Gruening, a famous physician, wanted his only son to be a doctor. At Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and later at Harvard, Ernest Gruening had agreed wholeheartedly. But during three years at Harvard Medical School he developed an overwhelming curiosity about social and political developments and an itch to become a newspaperman...
...Sphinx of Springfield," cried Dr. Tansill, wagging a lean finger in the general direction of a bust of Lincoln (which stared sadly south), played "fast and loose" with Southerners "in order to trick them into a bombardment of that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...judge didn't know it, but the infant whose name was in question, yowling upstairs, was to be a famous sculptor. The clenched red hands of young Daniel Chester French would one day mold Concord's familiar Minute Man, John Harvard at Cambridge, and the seated Lincoln for Washington's Lincoln Memorial. He would live 81 fortunate years, and his wife and daughter would each write a book about him. Daniel's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, herself a sculptor, has written the better book, Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press; $4.50), published this week...
...psychotics who are, or ought to be, in institutions, a large proportion are curable. Recovery from depression is "possible and usual." Two famous sufferers, cited by Dr. Bond, who recovered: Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln...