Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built a new track and tennis facility, thanks largely to a $2 million gift from Kidder. Peabody chairman Albert H. Gordon...
...everyone's admission--including the two other national co-chairmen, Albert H. Gordon '23 and Walter N. Rothschild '42--Stone was the campaign's Big Gun and a major reason why the five-year drive hit its goal...
...innate taste, no question about that," says a former aide. "She has great instincts--and great blind spots. Sometimes she gets glamour, class and notoriety all mixed up." Frank Sinatra, whom she calls "Francis Albert," became an almost monthly White House visitor. When her aides suggested she invite Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar...
Entrants in this dense and unprecedented volume range from the heroic to the villainous, from Albert Camus to Lee Harvey Oswald. Mallon welcomes them all to his vast storehouse. Some neighbors provide deep ironic contrasts: Anne Frank tells her diary, "I twist my heart . . . so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like so to be." Four pages later a Nazi architect bitterly considers himself in the third person: "Hitler . . . would have been keenly delighted by the role Albert Speer...
...best defense against shoplifters, though, is still alert employees. Says Albert Zarets, president of A-Z Investigative Services of New York City: "Most shoplifters won't risk entanglement with a store detective." Merchants say when word gets out that a store is tough on shoplifters, thefts drop...