Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed old dragon of Spanish literature (The Struggle for Life, Youth and Egolatry), whose bitter, free-thinking attacks on church and state kept him in hot water, and whose hard-scratch realism in more than 100 novels made him a candidate (1946) for the Nobel Prize; in Madrid. A lifelong bachelor (he thought Spanish women were churchbound, thus intellectually inferior), Don Pio practiced medicine less than two years, ran a bakery with his brother, job-hunted across Europe, finally took up writing ("a means of living without a livelihood"). His harsh, simply written novels broke with the florid Spanish tradition...
...Abolished the group's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who shows repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union." declared the delegates, but "God in His love does accept the sinner...
Justice Brennan is a lifelong Democrat and a Catholic, two facts which all concerned deny had any influence upon the President. But surely these are considerations from which the President might make political capital. Aside from Mr. Eisenhower's intentions, however, his choice and especially its timing is questionable...
...White House announced that Ike had found a man to fit his specifications. Appointed to the bench to succeed "Shay" Minton: New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., 50, a Roman Catholic (the first on the court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme Court Justices with bench experience...
...Collins, the publicity-shy son of an Iowa farmer and businessman, built his company upon his lifelong hobby, tinkering with radios. (His newest hobby: tinkering with sports cars.) At 15, he made a newspaper name for himself as a ham operator who contacted the U.S. naval expedition to the North Pole. In 1931, he started turning out ham radio transmitters from a Cedar Rapids basement. Two years later he formed a company with $29,000 in capital assets...