Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick, leader of the Covenant. "Second: Lord Inverchapel...
Married. Morton Downey, 48, wealthy radio & TV tenor; and Margaret Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 29, daughter of $85 million (copper) Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle; both for the second time; in Hot Springs...
...admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer...
...Bombo, Big Boy), whose brassy voice in The Jazz Singer for Warner Brothers in 1927 gave talking pictures their first real start; of coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. After a successful movie and radio career and then semi-retirement in the thirties, Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) started a second career during World War II, when he entertained troops in Europe, Africa, India and the South Pacific. In 1946 his dubbed-in singing of his old favorites (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers) in The Jolson Story, a motion picture version of his life, brought him new fame...
...caused Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to revise its production schedules to get a firmer footing in the low-priced field. Instead of making two higher-priced Kaisers for every low-priced Henry J, it reversed the ratio. And automen who were talking about raising car prices were taking a hard second look...