Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter was similar to that written on Dec. 17, 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ("To the President of the U.S. in 1956"). F.D.R.'s letter asked consideration of a West Point appointment for the infant son of Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., who was shot down early in the war over the Philippines after a bombing attack on a Japanese warship. Said the White House last week: Colin P. Kelly III, 18, a student at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., has not yet decided whether he will take an appointment, although President Eisenhower is ready to follow...
...John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
Sweeping Out. Texan Florence can now compete for loans far from home, perhaps even in New York, where, he concedes, he was born. (His father left that outlandish birthplace to open an East Texas grocery when Florence was an infant.) Raised in the hamlet of Rusk, Florence began by sweeping out the local bank for $15 monthly, at 24 became president of another tiny bank in nearby Alto and later the town's mayor. When a customer asked him to handle a $40,000 purchase of stock in Dallas' Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Florence got Guaranty to deposit...
...more lighthearted utterances, Winston Churchill said: "All babies are like me." The resemblance is more than superficial. Amidst the blooming, buzzing confusion which is an infant's world. Churchill remained the calm eye of the nursery hurricane, demanding a child's secure universe of bath (always at the same temperature), undisturbed nap, and steady liquid diet...
...Union's strapping unborn infant-which will not officially assume statehood until early 1959-already thinks it knows the name of its first elected Governor: Democrat William A. Egan, 43. Egan is running a one-sided contest against Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, Fairbanks insurance man, former Territorial Senator and longtime political catechist to Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost...