Word: janet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JANET E. THOMAS
After hearing from Jessie, reporters for the first time in years began dialing Cabinet wives, asking if they would like to see their husbands resign. Pamela Humphrey (Treasury) and Isabelle Mitchell (Labor) were out of town. Janet Dulles (State), Jane Weeks (Commerce) and Mary Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare) declined to comment, but four wives had something to say and no hesitation in saying it. Flora Benson (Agriculture): "As long as the President wants my husband to remain in Washington, I will be happy to stay here." Gladys Seaton (Interior): "I endorse Mrs. Benson's sentiment." Miriam Summerfield (Post...
...Marine captain or the opera-buff shoemaker of The $64,000 Question, but an agile Jack-of-all-subjects. He is an engaging, curly-haired, lanky (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 lbs.) image of the all-American boy-"so likable," gushed the Chicago American's TV Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this charm, he combines the universal erudition of a Renaissance man with the nerve and cunning of a riverboat gambler and the showmanship of the born actor...
...Famed Contralto Marian Anderson broke the singers' color barrier two years ago in the role of the Negro Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Three weeks later, Baritone Robert McFerrin made his Met debut as Amonasro in Aïda. Ballerina Janet Collins was the first Negro ever to be featured at the Met (in 1951), also...
...Died. Janet Allen Walker, 70, onetime vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach...