Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ray of Hope. U.S. aid to Iran so far has been tiny, compared to Marshall Plan expenditures for Western Europe. The total to date: 1) roughly $60 million worth of military equipment, mostly U.S. surplus; 2) a $25 million loan from the Export-Import Bank, not yet drawn by Iran; 3) $500,000 under Point Four, mostly for locust-fighting equipment. A major development plan for Iran designed by a private-enterprise group of U.S. experts, Overseas Consultants, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949), fizzled out because the Iranian government did not have the money...
...head their church as moderator in the coming year, the Northern Presbyterians elected a longtime champion of denominational union, Kansas-born Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, 58. A topnotch preacher who started out to be a sanitary engineer, then switched to the ministry and became a chaplain in World War I, he has served as pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church for the past 23 years. In his acceptance speech, Harrison Anderson denounced "the civic rottenness" that is blighting U.S. cities. "Let the Church of Jesus Christ become again the salt," he cried, "to be rubbed in-if necessary...
...present the French cancer society with a $10,000 check from the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss...
Pride of Cuba By trouncing Charley Fusari in March, Chicago's Johnny Bratton inherited Sugar Ray Robinson's world welterweight (147 lb.) title in the 47 states ruled by the National Boxing Association. But the New York State Athletic Commission figured it had a strong candidate for the title right in its own backyard: Cuba's (and Harlem's) Kid Gavilan, 25, winner of eight straight fights and one of the few boxers who ever stood up to Sugar Ray for a full 15 rounds. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Bratton...
...record: 62, by Washington College's Ray Wood...