Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third contention, that one candidate's name was badly mispelled, is also true, but the candidate in question did not object seriously to this error when a new election was offered by the Council...
Identity happily has fulfilled its promise to publish College poets. The level of the poetry far exceeds that of the last issue, and includes three runners you normally find in The Advocate's stable. Editor James Manchester Robinson hasn't shortened his name by a syllable; but his judgment, or perhaps the material on hand, leapt far and handsomely (if you neglect his continued pre-occupation with poetry as a graphic device, so garishly splashed across the center-fold). Sandy Kaye, Arthur Freeman and Stephen Sandy contribute good stuff...
...applicants who would colonize Quincy House. Consequently, I have been forced--since I have only eighty vacancies--to accept in each of the seven Houses only a small proportion of the men I would like to have associated with me in this enterprise. I shall, however, keep your name of the waiting list, and if new vacancies occur I shall be in touch with...
Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight...
...French Novelist Romain Gary, who wrote one of the best and most serious novels of 1958 in The Roots of Heaven, has turned out what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people who are so grimly determined to make men free that they lose sight of humanity and become petty tyrants themselves...