Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever happened in the World Series would be an anticlimax. For the first time since 1908 the American League pennant race had gone smack down to the wire; on the last day of the season, after 153 games, the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns were even Stephen, with 88 wins and 65 losses apiece...
...Little Colonel. Stephen Vincent Benét once called Van Wyck Brooks the little colonel of literature. Now 58, a ruddy-faced, grey-mustached man of middle height, he is as straight as an old soldier, somewhat resembles one in his severely simple working life and the spare common sense of his words. With the earnings of The Flowering of New England he built a square white brick house on the top of an isolated hill four miles from Westport, Conn. It has high ceilings, soft-toned walls, many windows, large rooms, a view of the Sound, books, comfortable chairs...
...crowd guessed whom he meant, shouted: "St. Laurent!" (Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, who had interned Houde). Chuckled Houde: "I presume you are referring to the St. Lawrence River." Then he switched into English: "I have not been the victim of British fair play . . . only the victim of a political party...
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled...
...Stephen Gratwick...