Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Mo. conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on Lydia H. Niebuhr, 82. Her qualifications: "A long life of service to religion and church education," and three extraordinary children-Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Theologian Richard Niebuhr of New Haven's Yale Divinity School, Theologian Hulda Niebuhr of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary...
...nomadic Turks swept in from the open steppes in the 11th century and settled themselves in Asia Minor on the ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer...
Bach Festival (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). With Rose Bampton, Lydia Summers, Harold Haugh, Norman Farrell...
...dislike of getting fat." To keep in trim he plays handball in winter and tennis in summer. A nonsmoker, he keeps social activities to a minimum, and drinks, according to one acquaintance, "as little as possible for a man of his rank." Married to Lydia Gardner Happer since 1925, he has two sons, John Maxwell, 22, a Government employee, and Thomas...
Most Damnable. The British also reacted haughtily about Lydia Hill, the English showgirl the Sultan met in London's Grosvenor House in 1934. He brought Lydia to Johore with a flashing diamond on her left hand, but the British sahibs refused to accept her. The Sultan's reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan...