Word: berths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington University, John Foster Dulles applied at several Wall Street law firms and failed to get a job. "Law degrees from Harvard or Columbia," Dulles later recalled, "were the requirement for admission to the eminent law firms of New York." It took family influence to win Dulles a starting berth at Sullivan & Cromwell. Once in, he rose to be the top partner, but he never did get his name in the title. Sullivan & Cromwell it remained, and remains today, although Sullivan died in 1887 and Cromwell in 1948, leaving an $18 million estate...
...Feel Like a Blonde." Along the course she picked up a husband-British Author and Journalist Gavin Lyall-and a berth on the Observer, one of London's seven Sunday papers. The Observer has sensibly refrained from fettering its most uninhibited and uninhibitable staffer, whether she is attacking the trade ("Any journalist may be exchanged for any other journalist without penalty") or rinse jobs ("I am not sure which is worse-to look like a blonde and feel like a journalist, or look like a lady and feel like a blonde") or her own kin: "My aunt...
...bank president, Bradley did not qualify. So he paid to play, led the Princeton freshmen to a 10-4 season and scored 30.6 points a game. An All-America last year as a sophomore, he averaged 27.3 points a game; the Tigers won the Ivy League title and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs. Against tough St. Joseph's in the playoffs, Bradley was the whole show, picking off rebounds and flicking in baskets with one-handed push shots, graceful hooks and arcing set shots from 20 ft. out. Princeton pulled even, edged ahead. And then, with...
...however, is claiming that the Crimson has great personnel. Even Harvard's pre-season publicity releases didn't say that this was a particularly good team ("The best the team can hope for is a berth at the top of the second division of the Ivy League...
Jump Ahead. Son of a New Jersey advertising salesman, Hayden caught his first glimpse of the sea in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where his mother and stepfather had fled a jump ahead of the creditors. Before long he was slipping down to the Gloucester and Boston docks to beg a berth on the beam trawlers. By the time he got his skipper's papers, he was something of a local hero (LOCAL SAILOR LIKE MOVIE IDOL headlined the Boston Post). A well-meaning friend sent a letter to a Hollywood agent: "There's a young fellow back here named...