Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Van Johnson, 31, chubby, pink-haired cinema Dream Boy of U.S. bobby-soxers, and Eve Abbott Wynn, 30, onetime stage actress; he for the first time, she for the second; four hours after she divorced Comedian Keenan Wynn, Johnson's best friend; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Alleghany. Popular champion that he was, Bob Young also had his hands on a greater potential monopoly than any other railroader. He got his hands on it when he bought control of Alleghany Corp. in 1937. This fantastic financial Humpty Dumpty, put together by Cleveland's famed Van Sweringen brothers, O.P. and M.J., was one of the worst examples of giddy railroad financing of the '20s. After it crashed in 1932, no one thought it could ever be put together again...
...state government. Last week not a shop was open (except for druggists and undertakers). The Institute of Arts and Sciences had closed its classes. A thousand federal troops patrolled the streets, blockaded roads leading into the city. Most of the 35,000 inhabitants-with women & children in the van-paraded the streets in the sort of protest against local political bosses that was sweeping Mexico like a grass fire...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion (by Author Carl Van Doren, Cornell English Professor David Daiches, Educator Lyman Bryson) of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government, concluding a series of 16 broadcasts on the growth of Western society...
...Van Dusen. A note that ran through many of the speeches was clearly struck by Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary: "The knowledge and skills of modern civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control." Speaking of world Protestantism, Van Dusen said: "Inevitably, global war put the World Christian Movement to its severest test. What possibility was there of maintaining a world program of expansion amidst world-severing conflict? . . . What reality could be preserved by a universal spiritual fellowship, by a World Community...