Word: quentin
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Anita Colby, née Counihan, was 30 last August. She has never married, and the chances are that she never will. This is obviously not for lack of looks. Years ago her good friend Quentin Reynolds gave her a permanent nickname : The Face. Her good friend Voldemar Vetluguin, a one time editor of Redbook, has called it "the most beautiful face this side of Paradise." (He added: "And the sharpest tongue this side of Hell.") And until she got tired of the work, this seraphic property made her the highest-paid model in America...
Your article on the hazing of Quentin F. Soik at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Nov. 6) brought to mind the story of Professor Beers, Yale '69, about one Heaton, I believe to be the name, who had served with conspicuous gallantry in the Confederate Army...
...still-painful leg injury and honorable discharge after two years in the European Theater. Quentin F. Soik, 22, of Milwaukee, veteran staff sergeant of the Army Air Forces, enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-law student last summer. He was pledged to Theta Chi fraternity...
World War I changed strenuous living from pranks to patriotism. Quentin, the ex-President's youngest son, was killed at the age of 20 in an air battle with two German planes, and took his place with Joyce Kilmer, Lord Kitchener and Rupert Brooke as one of the most widely publicized casualties of the war. Kermit came through unhurt; Archie was badly wounded; Theodore Jr., the oldest, was gassed once, wounded twice and decorated 15 times...
Meanwhile, convention plans went full-steam ahead. Massachusetts' tall, toothy Representative John McCormack was picked to head the platform committee; the added list of speakers included Hollywood's Helen Gahagan (herself a candidate for Congress) and beefy, bonhomous War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. Washington gossip had it that Senator Claude Pepper and Postmaster General Frank Walker would be at the Chicago end of the White House telephone wire; that the President might not even make an acceptance speech, but just acknowledge his renomination at a regular White House press conference. And in Chicago, Ed Kelly's Illinois Democrats...