Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower and Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked...
With such proof of recovery before it, the FRB last week continued tightening credit, gave the New York, Cleveland, Richmond and St. Louis Federal Reserve Banks permission to up the discount rate from 1¼% to 2%, continuing the upward move initiated by the San Francisco Reserve Bank (TIME, Aug...
MARLBOROUGH'S DUCHESS (314 pp.)- Louis Kronenberger-Knopf ($5.75).
Authors who "understand women" may do so because they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of...
¶ Some writers become both fascinated and horror-struck by words and letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly...