Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loomis School's Nathaniel Batchelder, 69, stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...
...married couples who are childless but want children, Anatomist Edmond J. Farris, head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, last week offered some advice on fertility. He told the American Urological Association's annual meeting in Los Angeles...
...Vinsons to Omar Bradley and Louis Bromfield, find her a likable, kindly woman. Bromfield pronounces her "one of the gayest people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly...
Whim of Iron. Porter's life story has another deficiency as a movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown...
...married for the third time, brown-haired Alicia was a competent pilot, a Daily News book reviewer, and childless. She was also bored; she wanted a paper of her own, not to make money (she still draws no salary) but as an outlet for her restless energy. She talked her husband, Harry Frank Guggenheim, of the wealthy copper and nitrate family, into putting up the cash. It cost him, eventually, $750,000. Newsday, out of the red for two years, is now paying him back...