Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmund Gerald Brown was born April 21, 1905 in San Francisco's "Western Addition," then a middle-class section of narrow homes with stained-glass windows and Victorian gingerbread, now part of the city's expanding Negro community. Pat's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was a trim, likable man, given to fancy gold watch chains, aromatic cigars and second-best poker hands...
...superintendent of a private, exclusive Stockholm school announced the appointment of a new gymnastics teacher at $956 a year: Sweden's tall, trim Princess Birgitta, 21. Tumbling among her first pupils will be Crown Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, 12, her brother...
...Just Outgrew Her." Powell's secret of success lies in his gaudy person and personality, which seem to mesmerize Harlem's 75.000 eligible voters. Tall and trim (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.), the descendant of slaves (at ten. he says, he traced with horror the brand on his grandfather's back), he has talked his way to wealth and influence, become the dashing symbol of all that his constituents would like to be. An ordained minister, he succeeded his father in the pulpit of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning...
...that's what they make it out." Making it out best was Christine Stevens, president of Manhattan's Animal Welfare Institute and secretary-treasurer of the hard-lobbying Society for Animal Protective Legislation, and the humane societies' most effective spokesman. Trim, greying Christine Stevens, 40, badgered Congressmen, testified at hearings, used some of her own money (Husband Roger Stevens produced Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Time Remembered, once headed a syndicate that owned the Empire State Building) to crank out publicity...
Personal Traits: Short, soft-voiced, trim but arthritic, he is a professional soldier of high personal integrity, known to every Lebanese simply as "The General." He attends few parties, reads mainly military writings, says little. His censors regularly, at his own order, cut his name out of all dispatches during the rebellion...