Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burdick had looked vainly for the early '20s Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted...
Meet the Press (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guest: John Foster Dulles...
Last week in Boston, after five years of testing and observation, Drs. John G. Kuhns and Theodore A. Potter of the Robert Breck Brigham Memorial Hospital made the first public demonstration of a better way to restore mobility to arthritic knees. Drs. Kuhns and Potter had finally found a satisfactory material that would last: nylon membrane...
Ivan is not only Yale '47, ex-U.S. Navy and grandson of the late John Jacob Astor; he is also the spiritual heir of a hundred proud Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...
...John R. Lotz, chairman of Manhattan's Stone & Webster, announced the plan for Persia. In five bound volumes of 1,250 pages, O.C.I, provided the King of Kings with a blueprint for economic revolution, and U.S. and Western European businessmen with a guide to a vast new area of relatively untapped markets...