Word: fellowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Authentic Brahmin. "Cabot Lodge," a fellow New Englander recently observed, "has always been sitting on top of the world. After all, he was born there." By birth, Lodge is an authentic Massachusetts Bay Brahmin, and he can count six U.S. Senators among his ancestors.* Through a paternal great-grandmother he is allied to the Cabots, a Bostonian clan perhaps only partially maligned by the old quatrain in which "the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." The Lodge fortunes piled up in the clipper-ship days are now spread fairly thin among descendants...
...League Covenant and outright rejection of it. The compromise: ratify the Covenant with Reservations limiting U.S. acceptance of provisions that seemed to invade U.S. sovereignty. But ailing President Wilson stubbornly urged Senate Democrats to insist on all or nothing. On the showdown roll call, Lodge and most of his fellow Republicans voted for ratification of the Covenant (with 14 Lodge Reservations); 13 Republicans and 42 Democrats voted nay. As Grandson Lodge later pointed out, the U.N. Charter that the U.S. Senate ratified almost unanimously in 1945 included sovereignty safeguards similar to those his grandfather urged back...
This is how Nikita Khrushchev saluted his fellow Communists at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow last week: "It is a good time we all live in. The ice has broken, as it does during spring flood; everything is in turmoil. Everything moves ahead in its historical development. Vain are the efforts to stem the liberation struggle...
Died. Alan Magee Scaife, 58, Pittsburgh industrialist and serviceman in both world wars, board chairman of Scaife Co., president of the board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, fellow of Yale University's Yale Corporation; of a myocardial infarction; in Pittsburgh. Marrying Sarah Mellon of the banking Mellon family, Scaife stayed with his family firm, became a vice president of T. Mellon & Sons, and member of a dozen big corporate boards, was one of the civic leaders who helped carry out the postwar redevelopment of the city's famed Golden Triangle...
...open," said a trade paper ad (subject to other interpretations) by 20th Century-Fox that called attention to $472,000 worth of wide-screen science, filmed in "terror-color," concerning a fellow who has learned how to decompose and recompose matter electronically. Soon he has accidentally concocted two creatures consisting of parts of himself and parts of a horsefly. Fox, now that its Fly is open, offers a careful "$100 to the first person who can prove it can't happen...