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Word: stevenses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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One by one, the Skyrocket passed altitude records: the top flight of jet planes (59,446 ft.); his own earlier records (secret). Finally he passed the highest of all: the record 72,395-ft. balloon flight of balloonists Captain Orvil A. Anderson* and the late Captain Albert W. Stevens in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Closest to Space | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

She was born on Staten Island in 1862-the rebellious daughter of a staid Republican-was descended from revolutionary soldiers and related to Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens. She had met Walt Whitman, Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Ingersoll. Thrice married, she was the mother of six children, wrote children's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Radical | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Married: May 24, 1928 to Goldye Stevens, widow of Commander Rodney H. Dobson, who went down with the submarine S-51 off the coast of Rhode Island in September 1925. Two children: a stepson, Rodney, 28 (Annapolis '44), now an engineer with Du Pont, and a daughter, Joan, 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: TOP MAN OF THE NAVY | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Hollywood Opening Night (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Autumn Flames, with Onslow Stevens, Maria Palmer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Died. Ashton Stevens, 78, dean of American theater critics, for 54 years a drama man for Hearst newspapers in New York, San Francisco and Chicago (40 years on the Herald-American and predecessors); of a coronary occlusion; in Chicago. A mild-mannered, rarely caustic critic, he once defined his aim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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