Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he took a good look at the results of last November's Democratic landslide, Michigan Farmer Stanley Yankus Jr. decided to give up his five-year battle against federal crop controls. "The men who were elected to Congress this time," he told his wife Mildred, "would not change these farm laws-they're all for subsidies." So Farmer Yankus applied to Australia ("the least socialistic country in the world")* for an immigration permit and, having won it, last week on his 40th birthday asked the U.S. State Department to issue passports to himself, his wife and their...
...William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris salon just off the fashionable Boulevard...
...Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (20th Century-Fox). "I," sighs Horace Pennypacker Jr. (Clifton Webb), "will go down in history as the most misunderstood man of my century.'' The century is the 19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus...
Died. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 51, Yale '32, 5-ft.7-in., 144-lb. football quarterback, dropkicker, All-America; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Yale's Little Boy Blue scampered to fame against Army in 1929, outshining the great Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped...
Edward S. Stewart '59 has been awarded first prize in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's composition contest. His "Variations on a Melody" was the winning entry, while William D. Wilder, Jr. '61 earned Honorable Mention with "A Concerto for Orchestra...