Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cassius Marcellus Clay the youngest man ever to make the cover of TIME...
Never Conned Twice. No sooner had he married the President's youngest sister, Jean, in 1956 (Cardinal Spellman officiated), than Smith got involved in the Kennedy political fortunes. In 1958, he left his job as vice president of his own family's tugboat firm to run the Boston headquarters of Jack's Massachusetts Senate campaign. Up to then, Smith's only political connection was through his grandfather, William E. Cleary, who built the tugboat fortune and 40 years ago served three terms in Congress. Steve caught on to politics fast. Said a veteran of that first...
...Southern California. Assigned to a rundown parish in the Los Angeles slums, he renamed it the Church of All Nations and rebuilt it into one of the showcases of his faith. He was president of DePauw University in Indiana from 1928 to 1936 and then became, at 44, the youngest bishop of his church at that time. Oxnam took the honor lightly, and with some wit. Shortly after he was elevated to the episcopacy, a friend began a conversation with "My God, Bishop . . ." "No," Oxnam interrupted, "it's Milord Bishop...
...Wilson stood for office for the first time, and, in the election that threw Winston Churchill out of office, won a Lancashire seat handily by 7,022 votes. Two years later, when Wilson became President of the Board of Trade at 31, he was the youngest Cabinet member since William Pitt...
Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...