Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the plans were set--along the publications group lines--Gilbert declined nomination as editor of the Register. R. Johnson Shortlidge '50 was elected to the post...
Dean Martin is a handsome, 31-year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples...
Married. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, onetime boy prodigy of the educational world, who became president of the University of Chicago at 30 and chancellor (a specially created post) in 1945; and Vesta Sutton Orlick, 31, his secretary at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he heads the board of editors; each for the second time; in Washington Heights...
Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan...
...learned the language there. He moved to England as a boy and went to college at Oxford, where he later became a member of the faculty. He returned to Russia in 1945, however, for a year as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. Before taking the Russian post, he was with the Ministry of Information in New York from 1941-42 and then moved to the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary. For his war service the King made him in 1946 a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...