Word: temperedness
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After Mamma's Boy, a Punch. In Hebrew, Baruch means blessed. Little Bernard was first blessed in his parents. His father Simon fled his native Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate...
Old into New. As Imam, the Aga Khan was a king with no temporal kingdom, a sovereign without subjects, but his inherited spiritual authority fell upon his shoulders at a time when British rule was strong in the Moslem world. Reared by a strong-minded and worldly wise mother, his...
Avery Brundage, the U.S.'s terrible-tempered dean of athletic amateurism, wants to go to Bulgaria next September because the International Olympic Committee is meeting there, and he is president of the committee. The State Department turned down his request for passport validation on the ground that the U.S...
But Birdie had a few more years of playing ahead. In 1947 he was traded to the Boston Red Sox, where he hit as well as he ever had, showed a remarkable talent for making friends with terrible-tempered Ted Williams, and only fell into disfavor when he opened his...
Man with an Ax. His sympathy for the underdog aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the...