Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vital Statistics. Age: 63 (born Nov. 3, 1884 in North Attleboro, Mass., in a two-family frame house across the street from John Stanley's blacksmith shop). Ancestry: eldest son of eight children of Joseph William Martin Sr., a Presbyterian Scotsman who worked in the blacksmith shop, and Catherine Katon, an Irish Catholic; both his parents were born in New Jersey. Educated: North Attleboro public schools through high school. Not Married. Church: none...
...Missouri, where he returned briefly before coming to Harvard, Ciardi married a journalism teacher at KCU and started working with the Progressive Citizens of America, whose activities now take up much of his time. An executive member of the Massachusetts State Progressive Party, Ciardi believes that political issues are vital right here in the University. American colleges are on the road to a state of "military subsidization where there will be no freedom of speech and they won't be worth anything," be warns...
...Vital Statistics. Age: 41 (born April 13, 1907, on a 40-acre truck farm in West St. Paul, Minn.). Ancestry: his father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother, Elsie Emma Mueller, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was six years old. Harold was the third of four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota...
...large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...
...catching situation, always vital to a team and usually dubious in college ball, has ironed itself out quite nicely. Cliff Crosby, who whaled the ball in the south before collecting an injury, has returned to the lineup in explosive manner, collecting basehits wholesale and standing at the top of the Crimson batters currently with a .478 average. It remains to be seen whether he can handle his pitchers well under pressure...