Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bushman, 22, Cameroons-born Chicago celebrity, since 1930 the star attraction at Lincoln Park Zoo; of a heart attack; in Chicago. One of the biggest (550 Ibs.) and most ferocious-looking gorillas ever seen in a zoo, Bushman loved spectators, endeared himself to them with good-natured hamming.
A burly 52, he radiates good-natured befuddlement, looks rather like a beardless Santa Claus, with a full, ruddy face, frosty eyebrows, tousled white hair and a red flannel shirt to keep out the drafts that whip through his old house and set its mobiles whirling.
Home for the Holidays. At week's end, the President flew home to Missouri (in June, when he was visiting the family's big, white, old clapboard house in Independence, the Communists had marched across the 38th parallel). His social schedule was so crowded that, as he put...
¶ In Henryetta, Okla., Leland Gourley, publisher of the Henryetta Daily Free-Lance, was knocked down by an irate subscriber who objected to a Free-Lance story on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter for speeding. Publisher Gourley's good-natured editorial comment: "Who wants to interfere...
Joan Projansky herself is a friendly, good-natured woman. But her function was clear as soon as she took office this fall. The Radcliffe News reported factually: "Miss Joan Projansky, Radcliffe '49, has been appointed Director of the Publicity Office, succeeding Miss Barbara Norton. In her new position, Miss Projansky...