Word: fowlerize
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...have no stomach for fighting with widows," announced Conservative Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., 40. He may have played a bit rough with the widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme...
...capacity from Lloyd George's secretary to London civil defense chief in World War II, known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...
...professional dandy, and perhaps the best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example of a freehanded spender with class, Beebe gives an account of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner's paying Paderewski $3,000 to play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that...
Melting Surplus. Only seven weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler insisted that the U.S. would end the chronic deficit this year, give or take $250 million. The new forecast, which came from Commerce Department experts despite official denials of its existence, seemed to erase Fowler's promise...
Married. Susan Fowler, 22, Sarah Lawrence junior and daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; and James Gallagher, 22, Columbia University English major; in Alexandria, Va., at an Episcopal ceremony attended by President and Mrs. Johnson and four Cabinet members...