Word: honorables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Queen Elizabeth II was pleased to bestow her royal blessings on some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial...
Varsity halfback Albert F. Cullen, Jr. '60 was among nine candidates from whom Leamy was selected. The winner is the third Harvard athlete to gain the honor...
...existential. "We must condemn what deserves condemnation; it should be done with vigor and then put aside. But what still deserves to be praised should be exalted at length...I have never been able to make up my mind to spit, as so many have done, on the world 'honor...
Thayer has an old-fashioned sense of style when it comes to diplomatic correspondence. He regrets the passing of the formal dispatch, which was invariably to be addressed to "The Honorable, The Secretary of State," and started with "Sir: I have the honor to report . . ." Using these phrases, says Thayer, "the writer was at once in the proper mood of dignified respect for the recipient and at the same time filled with a sense of responsibility as the author of a state paper that one day might appear in the history books...
There are possibly three more Council members "casually interested" in the job, and, it would seem, none of the nine would be adverse to accepting the Mayoralty honor...