Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifelong Democrat, but I cannot but decry the smears now being attempted on the Administration. I want a Democratic victory in all of the upcoming elections, but I do not believe that victory is more important than honesty...
Nowhere was the soul-searching more noteworthy than among Britain's dyed-in-the-wool Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough...
Citation: "Lifelong concern with the liberating word . . ." Sidney Lovett, retiring chaplain of Yale University...
...proud, burly, white-thatched Oswaldo Aranha presumably has one last chance at his lifelong ambition: to sit in Catete Palace, Brazil's White House. If he does not make it in the October 1960 presidential election he will be too old afterward. Last week, in his frantic bid, Aranha seemed ready to toss away a lifetime record of liberalism, internationalism, Western Hemisphere solidarity...
Child in a Hurry. John Joseph Gunther was born Aug. 3, 1901, in North Side Chicago. From his father, Eugene Mc-Clellan Gunther, a convivial drifter, he inherited big-boned bulk and heroic alcoholic capacity. From their schoolteacher-mother, Lisette Schoeninger Gunther, John and sister Jean took on lifelong respect for book learning. As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History. Contents: "All the Necessary Statistics of the World," "World Battleships," "Greek and Roman Mythology with Genealogic Tables...