Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were other books, important by any standard, which never got their real due from the bookstore traffic. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind skillfully defined a political and philosophical tradition whose qualities are often misinterpreted, even by its friends. In Five Gentlemen of Japan, Frank Gibney explained briefly and readably what more formal scholars have failed to explain: the Japanese national character, its breakdown in World War II, and the reasons why free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding...
...best-dressed women, inherited a reported $35 million. What Spencer Auguste had not foreseen, however, was that lots of men would find Estelle attractive, thus infringing on Jack's assignment. Only last week, for example, Estelle, 42. got from Germany an urgent cable from husky Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas, 37, who before his screen career had been a wrestler. Kirk, who met Estelle in Europe last summer, begged her not to get engaged to anybody until he returned to the U.S. on Dec. 15. But suddenly Estelle, "too nervous to have a long engagement," crossed up everybody by announcing...
...Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...
...mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good a right to the adjective as the Kirk of Scotland. Similarly, after rooting for the origins of the word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain that the British House of Lords is as churchy an institution as St. Peter...
After sharing a box lunch, the two presidents exchanged short speeches. Kirk was delighted that ". . . in the midst of all his new activities (President Pusey) could come to the game today." After mildly hoping that Columbia might be victorious, he yielded the platform...