Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh Start. In Lyon, France, Railroad Employee Roger Clavey-Rolles, 35, charged with breaking into a woman passenger's sleeping compartment on the Narbonne-Paris Express, explained to police: "I wanted to begin the year in good company...
Cows Are Not Vain. Next, Knopf berates reviewers, longs for the good old days of H. L. Mencken ("who could even sell a book by denouncing it, so arresting was his invective"), Heywood Broun and Yale's William Lyon Phelps, "at whom the intellectuals used to laugh but whose enthusiasms were really contagious." The only present-day reviewer contagious enough for Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound...
...Catholics in three months"). To conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
After teaching in Baltimore and Restertown, Md., Miss Brown became head of the English department of Arlington Hall Junior College, Washington, D.C. She has been Dean of the Mary Lyon Junior College, Swarthmore, Pa.; Dean and President of the Chevy Chase Junior College, Washington, D. C., and Academic Dean of Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley...
...this began to touch off speculation about Adlai's hopes and aims: in the event that none of the new presidential hopefuls seems to have a commanding lead, might not seasoned old gladiator Stevenson be sent out in 1960 for yet another battle? Gossiped Chicago Tribune Columnist Herb Lyon: "Some of Adlai Stevenson's most avid Chicago followers are plotting to get him to try again...