Word: petrels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, gimlet-eyed, Alabama-born J.Frank Norris, 69, rejoices in his ecclesiastical reputation as the "stormy petrel of the Southwest," and sees to it that the description keeps up-to-date. In his church study at Fort Worth in 1926, the Rev. Mr. Norris killed an unarmed political enemy by shooting him four times in the belly and was acquitted on grounds of self-defense...
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint. She swooped with angry cries on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Foundation, she thinks, falsely claims (in the literature announcing the 1944-45 March of Dimes) that it supports her work...
...stormy petrel of the U.S. foreign service got a new job last week. To fill a part of the expanding diplomatic gap left by the Phillips resignation (see The Presidency), the State Department hurriedly appointed Career Diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, 49, as political adviser to General Eisenhower. Bob Murphy, who had the game kind of job when General Eisenhower invaded North Africa, will have the rank of ambassador. He will deal primarily with problems of German occupation...
Today Dan Golenpaul absorbs at least 20% of the $10,000 weekly fee that Heinz pays for the show. Tall, curly-haired, arrogant, he has a penchant for big cigars, for calling himself "a stormy petrel." Of his undeniably-successful Information Please he moans: "I should have got this ten years ago. I was robbed...
John Andrew Rice is a maverick among U.S. educators. By his own account, only one man ever understood him-old Philosopher John Dewey. A stormy petrel wherever he taught, Dr. Rice quarreled with the University of Nebraska, was kicked out of Rollins College (TIME, June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid...