Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 79, novelist (The Bent Twig) and magazine writer, member for a quarter-century of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection board; in Arlington...
...election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing's Fisher Body plant; after a four-year World War II Coast Guard hitch, he practiced law (University of Virginia Law School, '49) in Lansing, came up through the political ranks from assistant Ingham County prosecutor to prosecutor to Congress...
Died. Winona Fisher, 70, daughter of 98-year-old Primitivist Painter Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, N.Y. Of Grandma Moses' ten children, two survive. Seven years ago, at 63, Winona returned from California to look after her aging mother...
...first day of the Convocation of Canterbury in Westminster's Church Assembly Hall-presided over by the Archbishop, Geoffrey Francis Fisher-the divines were discussing the report of a church commission on the Ministry of Healing. The Venerable Maxwell Dunlop, 59, archdeacon of Aston, rose to express his distress at the report's appendix on the subject of exorcism. "Apparently no member of the commission has questioned whether demons really exist," said Archdeacon Dunlop...
...size portrait of Debbie that she had ordered for Eddie's birthday. "Now she doesn't want it," said Cowan. He also had a portrait of Liz on hand. "The man who ordered it never finished the payments." So Cowan shipped it to an eager buyer, Eddie Fisher. It seemed like the most sensible maneuver of the week...