Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking her first notice in her "My Day" column of Congressman-Son James's recent book, Affectionately, F.D.R., Eleanor Roosevelt took Jimmy gently to task for rapping onetime White House Housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt. "Whatever Mrs. Nesbitt did," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra...
Increasingly seen as a front woman for Britain's royal family, pretty Princess Alexandra, 22, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, who went out barefooted and in slacks in Australia last summer (TIME, Sept. 14) was far more formal last week when she attended a Brazilian Chamber of Commerce banquet in London...
...success hangs around men who are working on it. Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, it has three stages filled with fuel made mostly of a rubbery plastic holding together crystals of an oxygen-supplying material, such as ammonium perchlorate. The ingredients are first blended to form a semiliquid mass like peanut butter. This is pumped with extreme care into the rocket casing and cured by gentle heat to turn it into an elastic solid. Then a mandrel in the center is pulled out, leaving a roughly star-shaped cavity on whose surface the fuel...
...must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome. The second American to get a red hat was also born and bred in Milwaukee; Aloysius Joseph Muench, 70, the first U.S. citizen to be an accredited diplomatic representative of the Vatican. Pope Pius XII made him apostolic visitor to Germany in 1946, raised him to archbishop in 1950 and apostolic nuncio in 1951. As the first foreign diplomat to present his credentials to the German Federal Republic in 1951, stocky...
MONSIGNOR WILLIAM THEODORE HEARD, 75, a convert from the Church of Scotland (as a 26-year-old lawyer) to Catholicism, who will be the first Scottish cardinal since the death of Charles Cardinal Erskine in 1811. "He may also," speculated the London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing...