Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alas for the women of Roghudi, an outsider able to read newspapers did at last find her way across the donkey trails and the single, swaying footbridge that were the only entrances to their village. She was round-faced, innocent-eyed Francesca Zavattieri, the new schoolteacher...
...director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted supplies to the underground on 67 low-level flights to Norway, made no round trips in unarmed planes ferrying internees from Sweden to Britain). President Eisenhower sent his respects, and doughty Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid tribute to Balchen. Then, to add to the constellation of honors (including the Legion of Merit and the Medal of Honor) he had already, Balchen...
...President Daniel Chadwick of the Arizona Rural School Association was able to shed some light on what sort of youngster wins national spelling bees. Of the champs questioned, 128 came from public schools, 38 from parochial and three from private. Far from being freaks, 128 winners were rated all-round excellent by their schools, and 94 listed some form of sport as their favorite hobby. ¶ Appointment of the week: Franze Edward Lund, 47, president of little (700 students) Alabama College, to succeed the late Gordon Keith Chalmers as 17th president of 133-year-old Kenyon College (enrollment...
...Everyone had tournament jitters and they cost San Francisco's Hawaiian-born housewife, Jacqueline Pung, the U.S.G.A. Women's Open at Mamaroneck, N.Y. When she posted a last-round 72 for an overall score of 298, she seemed to have the title won. Although 72 was her true score on the round, she had a five on her scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole...
Divorced. By Denholm Elliott, 35, British actor of screen (The Heart of the Matter, The Cruel Sea) and stage (Broadway's Ring Round the Moon): Virginia McKenna. 26, blonde British cinemactress (The Cruel Sea, The Barretts of Wimpole Street); after three years of marriage, no children; in an uncontested action, on grounds of adultery with strapping Cinemactor Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers; in London...