Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your April 23 "End of the Rope," I am sure Albert Pierrepoint would be flattered by your statement that he is 45, and, in fact, he looks no older. But he is 50. Not so flattered is the Empire News and Sunday Chronicle when you quote its circulation as 1,961,230. The audited and published average net sales show a circulation of 1,994,311 in July-December 1954 and 2,532,540 in December 1955. The circulation is still rising...
...call him "Mr. George." Rolled into the Senate chamber in a wheelchair, Colorado's ailing Republican Senator Eugene Millikin, who is facing a re-election battle this year, wept as he paid his brief, barely audible tribute to his colleague. Tennessee's clear-headed Democratic Senator Albert Gore produced the day's best description of Walter George: "A Senator's Senator...
Sailor's Sailor. The fact that Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke is at the helm of the new Navy is no accident of seniority. Last year able, Navy-wise Secretary Thomas began looking for a replacement for retiring Admiral Robert Carney as Chief of Naval Operations. Thomas was keenly aware of the nuclear revolution and deeply concerned about the Navy's failure to grasp its full significance. Thomas wanted a man with the vision and drive required by the atom. He wanted someone who understood naval aviation. But most of all he wanted a man that the Navy...
There is a stronger possibility that the G.O.P. may give him some headaches at home. Leading prospect for the Republican nomination for governor is Detroit's Mayor Albert E. (for Eugene) Cobo, 62, who has been elected in nonpartisan contests to seven terms as city treasurer and three as mayor. Cobo's supporters think that the popular mayor, who has always pulled a big vote in Democratic Detroit despite the opposition of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers, might cut into the heart of Governor Williams' strength...
...last February, in his satiny suite high in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Boston Banker Serge Semenenko shook hands with Hollywood's Jack and Albert Warner on a deal. Full of enthusiasm, Jack and "Abe" phoned their older brother Harry in Hollywood: Semenenko had agreed to buy a majority of their stock interest in the family studio and take control. What did Harry say to that? Harry said no, and the Semenenko deal seemed as dead as dozens of others that have swirled briefly in Variety headlines in the five years since the Warners first announced that they would...