Word: latter-day
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...reader of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar can testify, Mrs. Guinness should be better known. She has a lean figure, the profile of a latter-day Nefertiti, and hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately...
...time on earth is running out, missionary leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints concluded at a convention six months ago. They resolved to make a last big push for conversions. By year's end the Mormons* claimed 90,000 baptisms worldwide, nearly double the total for 1960. And the most notable Mormon success came in a country rarely thought of as mission territory: Great Britain, where T. (for Thomas) Bowring Woodbury V, 53, is mission president...
...With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
...adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl"), Britain's bestselling Poet John Betjeman, 55, lit out for Australia in November all clutched up: "I could not write and was afraid to try; I felt I was finished." But last week, back in London again, Latter-Day Victorian Betjeman felt himself once more summoned by belles. "Australia," he glowed, "is a wonderful country with a wonderful future, magnificent oysters and wines, and athletic girls of the type I like best-with long hair and legs, and turned-up noses...
...These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...