Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later he became Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, got to know Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller...
...talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay, 21), Dad's mournful tune came as a stunning surprise. Said Cinemactor Lindsay: "I don't know why he made the statement. No one meant to do any wrong, and we're all working hard...
...family of the man whom the gossipists keep saying she will marry: handsome, unwealthy Prince Raimondo Orsini, 27. But Vatican and Iranian court circles frown on the romance, and Raimondo's low income seems no match for Soraya's high tastes. The betting of Romans in the know: no wedding...
...Indiana University faculty parties when David Randall was hired three years ago as a full professor. The new rare-book librarian had never taught a course in his life, had no Ph.D. (his only academic degree was an A.B. from Lehigh), and had proclaimed: "I don't know a thing about the Dewey decimal system, and I'm not going to learn. I've got a staff to do that." What is worse-although Randall is still confident that no one suspects-is that the key he wore and still wears was not issued by Phi Beta...
Claire Chennault died last year of cancer, Lieut. General U.S.A.F. (ret.). Before that, says this biographer, his persistent ailment had for years been nothing more deadly than a heavy heart. Author Robert Lee Scott Jr. ought to know. He flew in China with Chennault's legendary Flying Tigers, then commanded Chennault's fighter forces in what must have been one of the most gallant and frustrating wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically...