Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan, Tinian...
Moment of Faith. Brother Antoninus, 46, came to his vocation through labyrinthine ways. Born William Everson in Sacramento, Calif., to a Norwegian-born bandmaster turned printer, he put in some time at Fresno State College, married his 1 high school sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the truth"), and was overwhelmed by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. His other literary landmarks: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind...
Married. Julie Andrews, 23, peaches-and-cream-cheeked British star of My Fair Lady and The Boy Friend, whose airy musicomedy elegance showed through both cockney grime and flapper apparel; and Scene Designer Tony Walton, 24, a childhood sweetheart; in Weybridge, England...
...dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...
...that he was soon lured away by the Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Edison was a subsidiary of General Electric, then under its third president, brilliant, public-minded Gerard Swope, who kept the company reins firmly in his own hands. Cordiner celebrated his new job by marrying his college sweetheart. Gwyneth Lewis...