Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...
Night came and Tony's mother was still asleep. Tony's father was at sea on a freighter, bound for the Philippines. So Tony got supper of dry cereal and milk for his younger sister Judy and himself. Then they quietly undressed, crawled into bed beside their mother...
...Detroit last week General Motors Corp. celebrated an event that has yet to happen in any other nation: off Chevrolet's assembly line rolled the 25,000,000th General Motors car. Meanwhile, older mass-producer Ford was nearing its 28,000,000th; and younger mass-producer Chrysler had passed its 7,500,000th. All together, all motor makers of all other nations have yet to build their 19,000,000th...
...predecessor as director of the Metropolitan, famed Egyptologist Herbert Eustis Winlock, resigned last April because of ill health. When he tackles the job next May, Director Taylor will face many a knotty problem. Chief problem will be to regain some of the initiative the Metropolitan has lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser: to adjust shrinking income...
Died. Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), 59, Norwegian-born painter (landscapes and seascapes), onetime president of the National Academy; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tagged a reactionary by younger artists, Jonas Lie was regarded as a rebel by conservative Academicians...