Word: whilom
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Married. George C. Wallace, 51, Governor-elect of Alabama and Dixie's whilom presidential candidate; and Cornelia Ellis Snively, 32, onetime professional water skier and niece of former Governor James E. Folsom; both for the second time (Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband as Governor in 1967, died of cancer a year later); in a Presbyterian ceremony in Montgomery...
Known as the "Mission Rebels in Action," the new James boys are currently 600 strong and reflect the district's ethnic mixture of Negroes, Filipinos, Samoans, Maltese, Indians and Spanish Americans. Before Jesse came on the scene, most of the whilom rebels were headed for the standard non-careers of the neighborhood-petty crime, gang fights or debilitating welfare living...
Even the central scenes, sad to say, have been slashed for the sake of speech till nothing of the psychomythical significance remains and very little of the Joyce voice and its whilom Irish music. For those who have the patience and the intellectual equipment to read it, the novel is something very like a revelation; the film is not much more than a titillating tale intoned like the Gospel according to Joyce...
...University's Woodrow Wilson School of Government and International Affairs, Lyndon Johnson, venerably capped and gowned for the occasion, made a determined attempt to enlist the support of academe. At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals...
Married. John Randolph Hearst Jr., 28, whilom journalist and grandson of William Randolph Hearst; and Patricia Lusk Tenny, 23, onetime Hearst magazine trainee; in Manhattan...