Word: bairds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN E. BAIRD...
...much happiness in ears and disfigurement as in girlish laugther. The Max Liebman Spectacular, Heidi made a sentimental tour of Switzerland, Germany, and almost everyone's childhood. There were yodeling villagers, a flinthearted housekeeper and a curmudgeon grandfather. As Heidi, Jeannie Carson got strong support from Bil Baird's marionettes, Natalie Wood, and a number of pleasant tunes...
...Frank B. Baird Foundation of Buffalo, N.Y. has set up a $23,000 scholarship fund to be applied to a student either in the College or a graduate school. This was the largest capital gift, outside of a general grant of $181,775.25 by the Harvard Fund. The Baird grant was the only one, either capital or for current use, which mentioned specifically the College, in its allocation...
...your excellent review of Scotland's contribution to Britain's prosperity, it might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
...director free rain in selecting his board. Only one, Pain Joseph Sachs, was asked back. The new men, while justly famous in their fields, represented a new spirit in the University thinking about the Press. Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum, was chosen, as was Biology professor Baird Hastings and Economist Edward Mason. Malone, himself, was no professional publisher, but a sometime historian...