Word: welched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Part III of "The Constitution," with Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...
Since World War II (he served in the Welch Regiment and in Intelligence), Powell has resumed writing a series of novels in which he looks back with wry hindsight on the middling years of his life and on the causes of the discontents gnawing away at his class. The low-decibel tone in which he has written his eleven books may explain why he has almost escaped attention in the U.S. The earlier installments of this series (A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market) never sold as many as 5,000 copies in the U.S. The latest installment...
Joseph D. St. Clair, Assistant Counsel to Joseph N. Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings, and Samuel M. Lane '31, former assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, will speak tonight on "Law," in the first of the 1956 Conferences on Careers...
...shapeless as a burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle of yesteryear with all the fury and desperation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Bunker Hill, somehow imparting to her defeat some of the sorrowful majesty of a historical debacle...
...ways a down-to-earth type of man. Son of an Irish songwriter he was born at Wimbledon (a London suburb) in 1895, describes himself as "a true-born Englishman." His education was orthodox British (at Charterhouse and Oxford); so, for his generation, was his service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in World War I, when he was so badly wounded that he was listed as "killed in action...