Word: renown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, she trades in her commentator for a late-model cad (Laurence Harvey) from the advertising world, wins modest renown as "the Happiness Girl," promoting "chocolates with fairy-tale centers." Her own fairy tale ends, many escapades later, when she finds ruin at the top as the wife of a wealthy Italian nobleman. Mistress of a sprawling palazzo, she endures boredom, fame, and neglect-despising the suffocating luxury of a milieu that has nurtured and, at last, enslaved...
Died. Dr. James Bertram Collip, 72, Belleville, Ont., biochemist, purifier and co-developer (with Nobel Prizewinners Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. J.J.R. MacLeod, and Dr. Charles H. Best) of insulin for the treatment of diabetes, who also won world renown for his study of hormones, which regulate the body's metabolic functions, becoming one of the pioneers in the isolation of wonder-working ACTH and cortisone; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in London...
...state where deals, corruption and inefficiency have recurred with a monotonous regularity, the Department of Correction has been a refreshing oasis, presided over by a tough, scrappy, honest, and superbly competent commissioner. McGrath has continued to push the Correction Department into a position of national renown...
...mystery of the process of fertilization to slip a soul into animals. In 1899, by chemical alterations in water containing sea urchin eggs, he was able to fertilize the eggs and cause them to develop into larvae without any male sperm at all. For this work he gained world renown. Professor Fleming's introduction recounts that maiden ladies stopped bathing at the sea shore for fear of what the water might do to them; barren couples earnestly entreated Loeb to provide them with children...
...same day that rioting was going on in two cities of New Jersey [Aug. 21], about 200 white and Negro citizens of Bay St. Louis, Miss., gathered together at a reception to honor a Negro sculptor and painter of international renown, Richmond Barthe, who had returned to his home town for his first visit in ten years. Attendance of both races at the reception was entirely spontaneous and unorganized-so informal, in fact, that for a while it was the chief of police who poured punch at the punch bowl! It is apparently taboo these days to report anything good...