Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sage Bertrand Russell celebrated his 82nd birthday by bringing out his second volume of short stories, Nightmares of Eminent Persons. Among the bad dreams that Russell dreamed up were nocturnal horrors suffered by Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...central role of Marco, with Pippa Scott '56 playing opposite him as the Princess Kukachin. Thomas V. Gaydos '54, who played Thomas Becket in the HDC's winter production of "Murder in the Cathedral," is cast as the Emperor Kubla Kaan. Robert J. Beatey '55 will appear as the sage...
...betting books run from Tijuana, Mexico, Correlation went to the post in the mile-and-an-eighth Wood Memorial at odds of 2-1. And even those odds were shorter than Correlation would have carried had it not been for the fact that he was to be ridden by sage little Willie Shoemaker, 22, a master at getting the best out of his mount at the right time. The odds-on favorite of the Eastern crowd was C. V. Whitney's sturdy brown colt, Fisherman, winner a week before of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Gotham Stakes (TIME. April...
...indomitable Sir Winston, it is understood that he will not immediately accept a peerage but will hold onto his Commons seat for a while to speak out and act the role of elder statesman and, when occasion merits, the sage scold. Said one very close to him: "He will want to deliver at least six swan songs...
Doctor Without Cap. In the past dozen years, honors have been heaped upon Grandma Moses. Russell Sage College made her an honorary doctor of humane letters ("Only they didn't let me keep the cap"). She has been given the keys to the city of Albany. President Truman once presented her with an award ("I talked with him, and I could not think but that he was one of my own boys"). General Eisenhower sent her a card from Europe reading: "For Grandma Moses, a real artist, from a rank amateur...