Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Westbrook Pegler, 64, terrible-tempered Old Guard newspaper columnist; and Pearl Wiley Doane, 47, an energetic worker in Los Angeles Republican politics; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1955), she for the third; in Manhattan...
Change Is Decay. To the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews, the world was an oyster, water below, water above (it seeped through the upper dome as rain), with the earth as snug and central as a pearl. But between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C., the Greeks reached certain conclusions that were to be ignored for the next 2,000 years, e.g., that the earth rotated on its axis, that the sun was the center of the universe...
Kuter's replacement at the Air Force's Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
...former West Point cadet" named Dwight Eisenhower sent congratulations to a Dickinson College freshman in Carlisle, Pa. Ike was tickled to learn that Colin P. Kelly III, 19, son of the World War II hero killed on a Philippines bombing mission three days after Pearl Harbor, had won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, strictly on his own. The surefire way for "Corky" Kelly to enter the Point: accept an appointment by Ike, pursuant to a request made in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter addressed "to the President of the U.S. in 1956." Young Kelly instead...
...ordeal had only just begun. The prince retired to change into white tie and tails and to grab a bite or two of a ham sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage for the five-mile drive...