Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, 56, playwright (The Women, Margin for Error), wife of Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, sometime G.O.P. Congresswoman from Connecticut (1943-47) and Ambassador to Italy (1953-57), who was nominated by President Eisenhower in late February to be Ambassador to Brazil...
WAYNE LYMAN MORSE, 58, third-term Senator from Oregon, onetime law professor, longtime political migrant who has been in turn a Progressive, Republican (until late '52), Independent and Democrat; credited with one of the Senate's keenest forensic minds; famed on Capitol Hill for windiness (he once orated nonstop for 22 hr. 26 min.), unpredictability, ferocity in debate, and a capacity for nursing grudges...
BOSTON HERALD: Senator Morse, who has won this dubious victory over the Lady Ambassador, now qualifies, in our opinion, as the true heir of the late Senator McCarthy...
DENVER POST: The attacks of Senator Morse had some of the flavor of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy in his unsuccessful drive to block the appointment of Charles Bohlen as Ambassador to Russia six years ago. As it did in the censure of Senator McCarthy, the Senate may have need once again to look at its own behavior...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt. Son James, 51, California Democratic Congressman, reminisced about a sweltering summer weekend when F.D.R. was entertaining Britain's late King George VI and now Queen Mother Elizabeth at Hyde Park. At Roosevelt's suggestion, the King and the President climbed into bathing attire, drove off toward a nearby swimming pool along a road lined with U.S. and British Army guards. Spotting a clutch of photographers with cameras at the ready, the King abruptly shouted: "Stop the car!" "Why?" asked F.D.R. "I don't think," grinned His Majesty, explaining that he wanted no photographs...