Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Years. Son of gregarious Ohio Republican James Garfield Stewart, sometime mayor of Cincinnati (1938-47), now a state supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter...
Marek Hlasko was seven years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. He was 13 when the Communists took over. He worked as a bellboy in a Warsaw hotel, put in six years as a taxi driver. Out of his experiences he wrote savagely realistic short stories that made Polish Reds...
In blithe spirits, 17-year-old James T. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa lifted his right hand to take the oath of allegiance required of Navy enlistees, thereby followed in the footsteps of his father Albert and four uncles (George, Francis, Madison and Joseph) who as the Fighting Sullivans served together...
The Cunctator. Pius XII was the only Pope to have visited America (in 1936 when he was Vatican Secretary of State), and his pontificate was notable for its strengthened ties with the U.S. Five U.S. cardinals were named during his reign (James Cardinal Mclntyre, Edward Cardinal Mooney, Francis Cardinal Spellman...
But the aging citizen must plan ahead. He must stop feeling guilty over the fact that oldsters are alleged to complain too much about their illnesses. (Geriatricians argue that the aged, because they are less responsive to pain, are apt to complain too little, so that dangerous conditions go undetected...