Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spreading Fever. A secondary imminent problem for the Eisenhower committee to consider is Panama. There last week the government went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over the 10-by 50-mile zone. The U.S. reply to a demand for Potter's removal: a flat...
Gadding about his native Midwest, Poet T. S. Eliot, 71, gazed nostalgically at some of his early published verses during a chat with newsmen at the University of Chicago. Then he went to St. Louis, where he was born and raised, for the centennial celebration of Mary Institute, a private school for girls founded by his minister grandfather. Recalling how he once lived next door to the school's gymnasium and playground, Eliot confessed that he used to enjoy the facilities surreptitiously as soon as all the girls scooted home for weekends. "Considering all this," said he, "I consider...
...last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine if the ads were "false and misleading." NBC reluctantly went on a diet, forthwith decided to cut out all Regimen commercials...
...guest shots. Comic George Jessel has a knack for veering the conversation to Bulova watches. While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova. When being Person to Personed by Ed Murrow, Jessel lovingly showed off five clocks in his house; all five were gifts from Bulova. (Genial Georgie insists neither mention was intended as a plug...
...Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary school near Kimberley, where he also took an evening course that proved to be inspired by Communism. For a while Bhengu was attracted to Marxism, but by the time he was 20 he had returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal...