Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Actress Gertrude (The King and I) Lawrence signed on for a bit-part in civil defense, got billing as air raid warden...
...this same period, during the First Revolution, that Sorokin first went to jail; five prison terms were yet to come in the 18 hectic years which followed. Of his first sentence, Sorokin comments, "The warden gave me the use of his office, and it turned out to be the safest place to keep revolutionary literature...
...Caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1943. Paroled in 1948, Weinberg, still on probation, drifted casually into the United Nations. Last week he drifted out again. His U.N. credentials were revoked. But many of his Lake Success acquaintances felt like the prison warden who once said: "He has a splendid brain, only it works in the wrong channels...
Died. Sir Harold Beresford Butler, 67, a founder of the League of Nations' I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), who served as its director (1932-38), then as warden of Oxford's Nuffield College (r939-43), finally as Director General of the British Information Services in America during the war years; of acute pancreatitis; in Reading, England...
...awarded Boston's richest Episcopal parish-squat, medieval-looking Trinity Church in Copley Square. From the pulpit once filled by the great Phillips Brooks, he began to crowd Trinity with Harvard undergraduates as well as Back Bay Brahmins. Sherrill's preaching, says Trinity's former senior warden, Alexander Whiteside, is not spellbinding, but "it's pretty damned good. He always gives you something to take home . . . He's the most sensible and sane man I have ever known. When the Russian crisis began to look serious last year, I said to myself: 'There...