Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Hall Paxton, 52, American consul at Isfahan, Iran, who in 1949 led a group of men, women & children in an epic, ten-week, 2,500-mile escape from Chinese Communists into India; of a coronary thrombosis, in Isfahan. Old China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by...
Man of the Hour? Fine, who, like Boss Quay, has great "skill in calculating political quantities," can certainly understand the arguments of the county leaders and his friend Sordoni to the effect that Ike is a good bet for November. The Grundys, out of touch with the voters as usual...
"The Church," lamented Crockford's anonymous preface writer, "is unable to attract people to listen to the gospel . . . [Its preaching] is like a safety match, effective only on specially prepared surfaces . . . The multiplication of bishops (fewer clergy and smaller congregations apparently needing more oversight, on the queer principle that...
An urgent message flew last week from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, out of which Queen Elizabeth's family had just moved. "The Duke of Cornwall is crying," it ran. "He cannot find his rabbit." Within moments, the white angora, overlooked in the moving, was rushed to the palace...
Snagless Zipper. Manhattan's Snag-Pruf Zipper Corp., which has been turning out a new nonjamming zipper for wholesalers at the rate of 100,000 a day, will sell it at retail for the first time this summer. The "trolley" can be removed from the tracks simply by pressing...