Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outpouring. All week Foster Dulles, coming back fast from his hernia surgery (TIME, Feb. 23), had been crowded by hospital routine. "You never have a minute," he grumbled to his State Department aide, Joseph Greene Jr. Dulles made no attempt to call Acting Secretary Christian Herter or to mix in State business. He took pleasure in afternoon and evening visits from wife Janet, in a unanimous Senate resolution praying for recovery of "beloved John Foster Dulles," in a phenomenal outpouring of 8,000 letters, telegrams and get-well cards...
With Pranno glaring a yard away, Kelly last week stared at the committee's mahogany table, refused to answer questions. This provoked North Carolina's courtly Sam Ervin Jr. to a rare outburst. "It is a tragic state," said he, "to see a man who comes in the shadow of the Capitol of his country who cringes in fear...
With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
...women's squash is the House of Howe. The dynasty began almost from the moment that the first clubs admitted women to their courts. When Boston's Union Boat Club organized the first-ever women's state tournament, the winner was Mrs. William F. Howe Jr. The wife of a prosperous Boston stockbroker and Yale athlete, Margaret Howe proceeded to take the national championship in 1929, 1932 and 1934, after mothering twin daughters named Betty and Peggy. As soon as Betty and Peggy got their growth and found time to give squash their full attention, they took...
Singing Environment. Actually, his story needs no fanciful embellishments. Harold George Belafonte Jr. was born 32 years ago in Harlem, son of a seaman in the British merchant marine; his mother was alternately a dressmaker, a baby sitter, a domestic servant. Both parents came from Jamaica, West Indies, and both were products of white and Negro unions. Harry's father disappeared when he was two (he reappeared sporadically after that), and Harry was brought up by his mother in a succession of Harlem tenements. At his first school (P.S. 186, on 145th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...