Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People section, is forever writing in to "straighten" us out on this or that technicality of his misadventures. Not long ago Clark Gable's first wife, Josephine Dillon, communicated her displeasure at another magazine's description of her as "many years his [Gable's] senior.'' She thought we ought to know that she is only "three'' years older than Gable, who is "swiftly approaching fifty...
...last week's National Tennis Championships at Adelaide, Pails ripped through Quist, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. When he squared off against Bromwich in the finals, he carried his more seasoned senior to five sets, lost the match 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. A stubborn, powerful player, with the doglike retrieving instincts of Georgia's Bitsy Grant, he also had plenty of offensive equipment, a cannonball service, a good backhand, a devastating overhead. He swung his heavy (15¼ oz.) racket two-handed in Bromwich-Vivian McGrath style...
...often felt unwell. Colleagues in the U.S. Senate had noted that the author of the National Labor Relations Act and many another piece of New Deal social legislation appeared less often in the seat that had been his for nearly 20 years. For New York's senior Senator, Democratic Robert Ferdinand Wagner, the time had come to take a significant religious step...
Sample details: marriage to his dramatic coach, Josephine ("He hasn't forgotten a thing I taught him") Dillon, several years his senior, ended in divorce, 1930; marriage to wealthy Texas Widow Ria Langham, also several years his senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
...Brewster Kopp '47 and Robin F. Worthington '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in tonight's debate. Among the Judges will be Walter J. Cunningham, instructor in Physics and senior tutor of Adams Houses, and Kurt W. Lessen, proctor in Lowell House...