Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady: Having attained an age when the comforts of home and a warm cheerful hearth have more of an attraction for me than chewing the fat with a bunch of laid-by sourdoughs, I have read everything in TIME including the list of editors, where I ran onto your name. At the risk of being a bit impertinent, is that your name or just your business name? My father's people came from New England . . . and your name recalled pictures of homes there belonging to my ancestors. It kind of animated old memories...
...benefit of Reader Jones and all concerned, Content is indeed Senior Editor Peckham's given name (she is married to Joseph Cowan, a former newspaperman). There have been Peckhams in New England since the 17th Century, including Contents and a Freelove or two, but TIME'S Content Peckham is a native New Yorker (New Rochelle). We first caught sight of her in 1930, after she was graduated from Bryn Mawr, when she applied for a researcher's job. She was told to get some experience and try -again...
...Valpey continued his travels, this time stopping off at the University of New Mexico. The director of athletics invited him out, so Art combined the trip with some business in the mid-West. New Mexico is scheduled to name its new football coach within a few days...
Representative Gordon Boynton of Boston, principal speaker against the original Lally bill on Tuesday, termed the new measure "un-American procedure and fascistic," and challenged the supporters to name one school in the state which was teaching communism...
Felix was celebrating his "name day," St. Felix Day, which actually was Friday, but which Felix was observing on Sunday, according to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church...