Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school, Paul-Henri was erratically brilliant. Once, when he flunked an exam, he forestalled punishment by declaring: "I have already administered to myself the full flow of reproach which a boy in my situation usually gets from Papa and Maman" Spaak's culture is essentially French, and his early heroes were French. He was particularly keen on Napoleon until, in his own words, he "became aware that it was compromising for a politician to admire Napoleon too much...
...Play a Bad Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
...Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward, for distinguished reporting of international affairs (life in the U.S.S.R.). The award for international news reporting was skipped, for the second year...
...Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
When a lacrosse team beats Exeter, it's as much news as man-bites-dog. George Hanford's '51 stickmen did it Saturday to the tune of 8 to 3. Meanwhile, on the Cape, Paul Birdsall scored four times, and that was enough for the Jayvees to zoom to a 4 to 3 win over Tabor...