Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suave, straight-backed U.S. career ambassador headed secretly across town to Washington National Airport one day last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Irish, Italian or Polish dinners. But the new devices have yet to boost attendance at solemn, often boring business meetings. Says one Boise (Idaho) Moose: "We have lots of social members, very few real brothers." Says a Seymour (Ind.) Elk: "The Elks' bar serves the crispest martini in town, but I don't attend meetings because I'm afraid they might try to make me an officer...
...Manhattan she is pushing the wall with the best in town...
...details from such Confidential stories as "Eddie Fisher and the Three Chippies," "Mae West's Open-Door Policy!" "Here's Why Frank Sinatra is the Tarzan of the Boudoir." "Why Tony Steel Chuckled When Anita Ekberg Said 'I Do,' " "It Was the Hottest Show in Town When Maureen O'Hara Cuddled...
...Philanthropist. In Walden, N.Y., when it was discovered that kindly, popular Town Clerk (since '28) Richard E. Baird, 65, had for years been reducing people's water bills without their knowing it (with a total revenue loss of $16,151), that not a cent went into his own pocket and that his beneficiaries were rich and poor, friend and foe, even people he didn't know, his only comment was: "I really don't know...