Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Married. Harry Blackstone (real name: Harry Boughton), 65, famed magician of vaudeville's old rabbit-out-of-the-hat, woman-sawing school; and Elizabeth Ross, 49, a wealthy widow he met in Biloxi, Miss, while both were taking an asthma cure; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
...minor literary phenomena of the '40s was the rise of the utterly self-assured, or cold-poached-eye school of female novelists. Such gifted writers as Mary McCarthy (The Oasis) and Jean...
Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
Tight Harvard defensive play and a spectacular last-minute save by goalie Dick Craven gave the Crimson booters a 0 to 0 tie against Brown on the Business School Field Saturday, after a fast and rugged Bruin halfback line had throttled Coach Bruce Munro's forward line all afternoon...