Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like his famed humorist father, Will Rogers Jr., 40, has tried his hand at many things. The year his father died, he gave up polo playing and, at 23, bought the Beverly Hills weekly Citizen. He turned it into a fat (20-42 pages), successful, community semiweekly, whose four editions now have more than 40,000 readers. He was elected to Congress, and during World War II, quit politics to become an artillery officer. Last year he tried his hand at the movies, played his father in The Story of Will Rogers...
...Lehrer 6G, musical humorist, is also scheduled to appear along with a singing ensemble from the Hasty Pudding Club, the Krokodiloes, and an octet of Wellesley girls, the Wellesley Widows...
...government grant. It boasts one of the nation's largest cyclotrons, England's best medical and dental schools, research institutes of every sort from law to archaeology. The faculty has included such well-known Britons as Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Sir William Ramsay, Sociologist Barbara Wootton. Humorist Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter, Philosophers...
...British humorist and onetime M.P. Sir Alan P. Herbert, who recently wrote letters to editors suggesting that harsher punishment should fit the crime of burglary, interviewed a prospective cook who told him that she was not only adept in the kitchen but was most interested in re-reading some of his books. He hired her. After serving one meal, she left, taking with her A.P.'s family silver. Said the police later: the cook, better known as "Mary Jane," had a record of bilking some 50 other households in much the same way. Said A.P.: "It is some consolation...
Foreign Relations. Wisconsin's back-slapping Alexander Wiley, a self-described humorist, who was an ardent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has now moved, thanks partly to his British-born bride, all the way to internationalism. He sees himself as a new Vandenberg; others see him merely as a new Wiley...