Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Proprietor John Walter III (grandson of the founder) ; sturdy, gregarious Editor John Thadeus Delane; shy, lettered Manager (managing editor) Mowbray Morris. During those years The Times made itself the paper of every middle-class Englishman's breakfast table by vociferously championing the bourgeoisie that was climbing to power on the shoulders of a decaying aristocracy...
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, 24, great-granddaughter of Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper (founder of Manhattan's famed free educational centre, Cooper Union), heiress to $10,000,000; and one Gene Bradstreet, 23; she for the second time; in Reno. In 1936 Heiress Hewitt started suit against her mother for tricking her into being sterilized, allowed the suit to languish because "no matter what she is, she's still my mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez...
...would seem incredible or unique to the outsider, for it is a huge pep meeting without any reason for being. The boys just get together--in the words of the founder back in 1895--to experience the "rebirth of the College spirit," or to "pledge their loyalty to the College." They listen to a few speeches, and applaud telegrams which have been sent by Dartmouth clubs which meet simultaneously all over the nation in a sort of mystical unity; they cheer a bit and sing "Dartmouth Undying" or "Men of Dartmouth"; then perhaps they go straight to bed like...
...London last month, Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman went into court to claim a legacy of ?500 left to the Oxford Group, of which he is founder (TIME, March 6). Last week the Hon. Mr. justice Sir Charles Alan Bennett ruled the legacy invalid. Grounds: lack of proof that the Group existed. Dr. Buchman's counsel, asked by the justice whether anything happened when one joined the Group, had replied: "No, I think it is as invisible as joining the Church of England...
...sell Buchmanism under its newest name, "Moral Re-Armament," in the U. S. and Canada during the next three months. Dr. Buchman revealed that his Groupers had lately induced British milk dealers to place the initials M. R. A. upon 4,000,000 milk-bottle tops. Cried the founder: "I'm sure America will do as much. America will never lag behind in milk-bottle tops...