Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Borrowed. In Hutchinson, Kans., a marriage license was refused B. B. Archer when he could not remember his fiancee's first name...
Paved with Good Intentions? In Woodcliff Lake, N.J., the mayor and council approved a proposal initiated by the Rev. James I. Opsal, changed the name of the street beside the site of his new Lutheran church from Dam Road to Church Road...
...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
...dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit the same under careful supervision and guidance, always striving toward the goal that whatsoever we do in word or deed we do all to the glory of God and in the name of the Lord Jesus...
...vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy is only to honor achievement...