Word: wellborn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...
Died. Mary Ure, 42, cerebral, icily sensual British actress; of an apparent heart attack; in London. She first won wide attention as the wellborn, ill-used wife of an acid-tongued lout in Look Back in Anger, the 1956 marital psychomelodrama by her first husband, Playwright John Osborne. She went on to give other strong performances in films (Sons and Lovers) and on stage (Duel of Angels, Old Times), sometimes co-starring with her second husband, Actor-Playwright Robert Shaw...
...part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good regiments, who delivered Weimar over to the Nazis. They were also both favorites of the republic's beloved 85-year-old President Paul von Hindenburg (who at least had the excuse...
Arthur B. Weissman, of Elizabeth, N. J. and Leverett House (English): Olin G. Wellborn, of Alvin, Tex., and Quincy House (English); Mahatma Kane Jeeves, of Lompoc, Minn., and Dunster House (Physics of the Fine Arts); Jeffrey W. Willbrand, of St. Charles. Mo., and Quincy House (History and Science); Marcus W. Wright, of Charlotte, N. C., and Quincy House (Mathematics): Wording Erik White, of Lawrence, Kans., and Lowell House (Biology); Robert L. Yarrish, of Cherry Hill, N. J. and Leverett House (Language and Literature); Aron Zysow, of Brookline and Dudley Houre (Classics...