Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the work was profitable but depressingly anonymous. What finally got Backus better known was turning the lampshade boor into a radio character. Name: Hubert Updyke III, a hilarious snob who insisted that his ancestors landed at Cadillac Rock. Hubert bought cars by the gross, drove around with Guy Lombardo's Royal "Canoodians" instead of a radio, had a little man on the hood to work as a windshield wiper...
Born. To Princess Shahnaz, 18, daughter of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk of Egypt), and Ardashir Zahedi, 29, Utah-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi: their first child, a daughter; in Teheran. Name: Princess Zahra Mahnaz. Weight...
Born. To Suzanne Farrington, 24, daughter of Vivien Leigh (by her first marriage), and Robin Farrington. 30, insurance broker: a son, Actress Leigh's first grandchild; in London. Name: Neville Leigh. Weight...
Beyond Politics. Around the world the name of Boris Pasternak, until recently familiar to few except fellow poets and literary specialists, has assumed a kind of magic. In U.S. book stores, Zhivago, the No. 1 bestseller, is periodically out of stock; U.S. sales to this week: 344,000 copies. The publisher (Pantheon) has a new printing of 430,000 copies scheduled, and the Book-of-the-Month Club is rushing Zhivago to its subscribers as an alternate choice. It has been translated into 17 languages: the book without a country will shortly span the globe. At least some clandestine copies...
...asked: 'Who is being buried?'-'Zhivago,' they were told.-'Oh, I see. That's what it is.'-'It isn't him. It's his wife.'-'Well, it comes to the same thing.' " Zhivago is a name Pasternak has used to evoke the Russian words for life and vitality. His meaning may well be that, for too long, it has been Russia's fate to bury the living...