Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVERETT A. HELLMUTH JR. Hedgesville, W.Va...
...high school days, Thach was a fine athlete, only a fair student; happily, his football coach was his math teacher, and his track coach was the physics instructor. He was in his third year at Fordyce High when his brother, James Harmon Thach Jr., was admitted to Annapolis. Says Submarine Hunter Thach, with a sense of wonder: "I remember how surprised I was when I first thought about the seas and realized I had never even given them a thought before. I knew so little I was under the impression that if you took a handful of ocean water...
CARTER MULLALY JR. West Los Angeles...
Harlem's handsome, husky Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. talks more and does less about civil rights than anyone on Capitol Hill. In his 14 congressional years, he numbers his flamingly civil-righteous words in the hundreds of thousands, his headlines in the thousands-and his actual legislative achievements on the fingers of one flamboyantly waving hand. Yet Adam Powell is the living rebuttal to the notion that actions speak louder than words-and last week he proved it again. In his roughest political fight, bitterly opposed by Manhattan's Tammany Hall and New York's Democratic...
...Theodore Rousseau Jr., the Met's curator of European paintings, deciding to hang them there, launched a campaign to persuade collectors to use the museum as their storage room. "I began asking, 'Are you going away this summer?' and got responses. So I took a gallery, cleared it out and put the paintings in." The Met has continued this policy every summer, given special billing to six summer collectors' shows since 1949. This year's, on view this week in eight newly added Met galleries, is twice as large as any of the past...