Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
Princeton students once voted him the world's worst poet, and a jeering couplet hounded him for years: "I'd rather flunk my Wassermann test/Than read a poem by Edgar Guest."* Such insults missed their mark, for Edgar Albert Guest never even pretended to be a poet. Said he: "I am a newspaperman who writes verse." And at the time he died last week at 77, Edgar Guest's success as a verse-writing newspaperman had never before been equaled and may never be again...
...cars, power boats and vacation-bound plane trips, was an almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition...
Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, leader of the expedition to Herter's office, had just come back from Geneva, and he was convinced that the U.S., lacking clear ideas of what it is trying to achieve, had let the test-ban conference become an exercise in futility. Lost in the floundering was the U.S.'s sense-making proposal to ban easy-to-detect atmospheric tests (from ground level to 31 miles up)-a proposal (TIME, April 27) that could be put into effect on short notice if the Russians really wanted to start with a workable...
...Died. Albert Fisk, 68, pioneer aeronautical engineer who developed the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s automatic pilot and other flight instruments, gyrocompasses, high-intensity searchlights and ship stabilizers during the course of research that spanned two world wars; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...