Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band had offered to play for the President on its return from the Virginia game, but Presidential secretary Matthew J. Connelly was forced to forego the offer because of the Chief Exacutive's heavy schedule...
Morning Afters. The story that goes with the pictures is spun out in disarmingly unliterary prose, a kind of sardonic self-portrait of a Matthew Brady in paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named Elaine (he called her Pinky) and interspersed with morning-after recollections of nights before spent with more-or-less real people with names like Ernie Pyle, Quentin Reynolds and Ernest. Hemingway. At worst, the text can hardly spoil the pictures-or spoil the illusion that all photographers are exasperating...
...Match Game. The man who had blown up this merchandising phenomenon was Matthew Fox, 36, the bubble-shaped executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures. Matty Fox, whose pudgy fingers dabble in many side investments that have little to do with movies, got into balloon-blowing by way of the "everlasting match." The match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal...
...Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (Matthew...
...congregation has backed him almost to a man. And many modern Christians would welcome the special Litany for St. Matthew's Day written by Poet W. H. Auden.* Excerpts...