Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Appleton. The prestigious Forum is the pet child of the New York Herald Tribune's tiny, self-assured vice president, Mrs. Ogden Reid. The newspaper business has no comparable public-service venture. It also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
...London, where Whitelaw Reid was the U.S. Ambassador, the Reids' efficient secretary met the Reids' carefree son. Ogden and Helen Rogers were married in Appleton. Old Whitelaw Reid had taken over the Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872; Ogden inherited it. Helen Reid stayed away from the Trib until her husband called for help in 1918, when $15 million of the family fortune had been pumped into...
...ford, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John H. Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet
...Brigadier General John A. Appleton, former Pennsylvania Railroad executive, will govern transport, and Brigadier General William H. Draper, former New York investment banker, will take over the vast economic section...
DAYSPRING-Harry Sylvesfer-Appleton-Century ($2.75). An introspective, cynical anthropologist finds salvation in studying New Mexico's self-flagellating Penitentes. Sophisticated, mystical, inconclusive...