Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through all the sound & fury, Candidate Bose remained in Switzerland, rallying his supporters with long-distance statements: "Black-marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...
...kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
Barrois maintains that the "monopoly claimed by the Roman Catholic Church . . . stands in contradiction with formal statements of Jesus and the Apostles. Jesus promised to be in the midst of two or three gathered together in His name; are we to declare that the church is not there? . . . We know full well that Scripture needs a qualified interpreter, but we cannot agree with our Catholic neighbors on who this interpreter shall be . . ." The Protestant version: "This infallible interpreter is none else than the Holy Spirit." But Roman Catholics "want human guides and little candles to light the way ahead...
Born. To Gregory Peck. 33, lanky cinemactor (Gentleman's Agreement, Duel in the Sun), and Greta Konen Peck, 32, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Carey Paul. Weight...
...William Randolph Hearst Jr., 42, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American, and third wife Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 29, the Washington Times-Herald's society gossipist ("These Charming People"): their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: William Randolph III. Weight...