Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born. To Lord Rothermere, 69, Fleet Street press lord (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch), and Lady Rothermere, 36, Texas heiress and niece of Dallas Oil Magnate Clint Murchison: their first child (he has a son, heir to the peerage, and two daughters by his first marriage; she has six sons by her prior marriage), a boy; in London. Name: Esmond Vyvyan...
...Belmont Hill, a prep school founded by Harvard professors mainly for their children, Kingman settled for Bs on his report cards. "He had a tremendous brain, but there was so much else he wanted to do," recalls his Latin teacher. He edited the school newspaper, played the First Lord of the Admiralty in H.M.S. Pinafore. A star at debate, he helped beat a loquacious Groton team consisting of Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and William and McGeorge Bundy, taking the affirmative side on "whether capitalism is more conducive to war than socialism...
...Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...
...that the size and the scope of the problems facing Christianity made it imperative for the church to unite under a single authoritative spokesman. "We need the Pope," he said, "because in this perilous age we need one symbolically potent bishop to give expression to the word of the Lord for our day," Myers further argued that there can be no successful reunion of Christianity without the Pope as its visible center. He suggested that Protestants should leave such doctrinal problems as papal infallibility for the theologians to resolve...
...Nobel Prize winners, Lord Florey for work on penicillin, and Fritz Lippman for his research on intermediate metabolism, received Doctor of Science Degrees...