Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family of Distinction Sir: The Dr. Jean Persons, a public-health physician in Alaska whom you refer to in MEDICINE of the Oct. 6 issue, is the daughter of the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II. Her uncle, Wilton Burton Persons, is the man President Eisenhower tapped to be his new White House chief of staff (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, same issue...
...last game the Braves were too jittery to cope. Burdette and First Baseman Frank Torre messed up two routine infield taps that gave the Yankees a pair of unearned runs in the early going. Catcher Del Crandall failed twice at bat with the bases loaded. It hardly mattered that he struck a solo homer to tie the game in the sixth; pesky Elston Howard promptly untied it with an eighth-inning single, and the Yankees were home...
Died. William Frank Buckley, 77, far-right-wing capitalist, onetime (1908-n) lawyer for Mexican oil firms, who struck it rich with his own fields, bitterly anti-progressive-education theorist, who last year (TIME, March 4, 1957) founded a school on his Sharon, Conn, estate, to produce an intellectual elite (mostly his own grandchildren) who would be safeguarded from "the blight of liberalism and Communism"; in Manhattan...
...friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...
...asked experts to pick the "Twelve Best Buildings in the Old Dominion since 1776." Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...