Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sir "Evelyn Wrench, 84, a wellborn journalist from Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...
...W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff bofom...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The All-Ireland Hurling championship from Dublin, and the National Air Races in Reno...
While the international argument continues, the biggest excitement in phlebology (the study of veins) is now being generated in England and Ireland, where inventive surgeons are perfecting their injection treatments. Ironically enough, they are improving on techniques developed by Americans...
...Manhattan at an age given out by her office as 82, was the czarina of the cosmetics business, a Bluegrass princess of the racing circuit, and a self-made multimillionairess with one Manhattan penthouse, one horse farm, a country cottage in Belmont, N.Y., and a 12th century castle in Ireland. More essentially, she was the first woman (or man) to successfully merchandise not merely creams and lotions, but the "Concept of Total Beauty," to remind women-and indeed, to convince them-that they could and should spend freely in order to "hold fast to life and youth...