Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spencer Scott lives in a comfortable middle-class home (in a white neighborhood) with sympathetic parents. But he is 17; he is in trouble at school, he is bothered by sex, he is at odds with his family. And there are difficulties over his race: a white world that cannot accept him as a suitor is bewildered over how to accept him at all. He chafes and broods and breaks loose; he talks to prostitutes in a bar, talks to one of them in her room; is crushed by the death of his grandmother (well played by Estelle Hemsley), restored...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
...sent the White House four nominations: ¶ For Assistant Secretary in charge of labor standards, instead of Edelman: Harrison Clayton Hobart, 64, an assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a self-styled "rock-ribbed Republican." ¶For Assistant Secretary (international labor affairs): Spencer Miller Jr., 62, adult-education specialist, president of the union-sponsored International University in Springfield. Mass...
...only the third time in 52 years, trustees of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research met in Manhattan last week to pick a new head for their hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River.* As successor to the late great Dr. Simon Flexner and to Dr. Herbert Spencer Gasser, now retiring at 64 after directing the institute for 18 years, the trustees chose Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk, 55, president of Johns Hopkins University since 1949. They also streamlined the institute's internal-command setup and elected David Rockefeller, 38, the founder's grandson, as, their own chairman...
Louise Treadwell Tracy, founder of the John Tracy Clinic, wife of Actor Spencer Tracy...