Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BILL KERNAN'S CURIOUS CAREER SHOWS HIM EVEN ILL FITTED FOR HIS AUTHORITARIAN CHOICE. HE WILL LEARN TO ACCEPT DISCIPLINE AS WELL AS DEMAND IT. WHATEVER GAVE HIM THE IDEA THAT THE RANK & FILE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY DON'T OFTEN GET "SORE" AT THEIR SPIRITUAL PASTORS...
...tribute to Mike Romanoff that some of his friends have now elevated him to the rank of king, and that anyone is willing to lend him anything like $25,000. Twenty years ago, the New Yorker published a five-part Profile on him because he then had the dubious honor of being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent...
Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. told a Senate committee that "the entire Army" was "deeply shocked" by the capture of Camp Commander Francis T. Dodd by his prisoners. Both Dodd and Brigadier General Charles F. Colson, who agreed to the compromising ransom terms, were busted to their permanent rank of colonel. To Colson's immediate superior, Brigadier General Paul F. Yount, went a formal "administrative reprimand...
...rank amateur, Donald V. Applegate of Cochabamba, caught a 17-pounder; the current record is held by Ricardo Roberts, manager of the newspaper La Razón, who boated a 32-pound rainbow.* Packing up to transfer to a new post in the Pentagon last week, Moores vowed: "I'll be back next year. If there's not a 40-pounder there now, there'll sure be by then, and that's the boy I'm after...
High Treason (J. Arthur Rank; Pacemaker) wrings a good deal of bang-up drama from a spy plot in which enemy agents conspire to blow up England's strategic power plants. The picture is a solo effort of Britain's talented Director Roy Boulting, who, with his twin brother John, made the taut 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon, about a demented atom scientist's attempt to destroy London...