Word: freda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-and second-shift Marxes occupy a rambling, white-pillared Georgian mansion on a 20-acre estate in suburban Scarsdale, just off the Hutchinson River Parkway. Marx bought the red brick house for his first wife during World War II, but before they could move in, Renee Freda Marx died of cancer. After that, says Rosie O'Donnell, "Lou was both father and mother" to his children: Barbara, now 26, wife of Artist-Writer Earl Hubbard; Louis Jr., 24, a Princeton graduate, now a Marine lieutenant; Jacqueline ("Jackie"), a pretty, dark-haired Vassar graduate who joins New Jersey Republican Senator...
Henry Regnery has published a spate of works by such right-wing authors as William F. Buckley Jr., Chesly Manly, Louis Budenz, William Henry Chamberlain and Freda Utley. He seems to act as a magnet for those who hate Roosevelt, champion Joe McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn...
Ever since Freda Kirchwey bought the deep pink Nation in 1937, it has been almost constantly in the red. Publisher-Editor Kirchwey kept the weekly (circ. 32,726) going only by a constant begging campaign for contributions. Last week, weary of rattling the tin cup, Freda Kirchwey stepped out of her job. "I want to do some traveling and some writing," she said, "without the burdens...
...Freda Utley once wrote: "Chou is hard to resist . . . witty, charming and tactful." From a Chinese newspaperman in Tokyo: "I should say he is the most impressive public figure I have ever met." From K. C. Wu, the now exiled governor of Formosa: "He has killed people with his own hands." From a U.S. officer who, like many others, once trusted Chou: "I left thinking he was a friend ... If I saw him today I think I would kill him." And from Chou En-lai himself: "You must't forget that I am a Communist...
...second day, Sister Freda Holland at last recovered consciousness, belittled her own injuries, and gave thanks that she had been able to save the children. For a full three days, there was no one in all of Reading who had the heart to tell her the truth...