Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natalie Cantor Metzger, 29, one of Father Eddie Cantor's famous five, followed Sister Edna into divorce court. Natalie wanted her freedom from a Los Angeles antique dealer; Edna was through with Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh...
Hoosier Hooky. The dean of U.S. cartoonists was a Tippecanoe County farm boy. He went to Purdue (class of '89) with two other famous Hoosiers, Author Booth Tarkington and Humorist George Ade. A few years later, after Ade joined him on the staff of the old Chicago News, he pair played hooky to go sightseeing in Europe. Their boss astonished them by raying for the features (stories by Ade, ketches by McCutcheon) that they mailed home...
...Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
...black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...
Professor Merk well-known to undergraduates as part of the Schlesinger-Merk-Buck team which teaches History 5, is the successor of two of the University's most famous historians. His immediate predecessors were the mediaevalist Charles Homer Haskins '08 and Roger Bigelow Merriman...