Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearing this morning. Becoming partly cloudy, warm and humid. Highest temperature near 80. Strong possibility of thunder showers in the late afternoon. Clearing at night and cooler...
Divorced. George ("Fanny") Hearst, 54, eldest son of the late publisher, William Randolph Hearst, vice-president of the Hearst publishing empire; by Collette Lyons Hearst, 46, sometime actress, his fifth wife; after six years of marriage; no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, Baron Webb-Johnson, 77, onetime (1941-49) president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated for a perforated ulcer, but was unable to save the patient...
...idea of man in motion grips the two most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...
...effort to stimulate alumni contributions, the directors of the Program have of late been urging alumni to make five-year pledges--that is, pay by annual installments over a five-year period. It is hoped that the active phase of the general alumni solicitation will be completed by the end of this year...