Word: bigelows
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...Bostonian of good family and, from his relatives' point of view, regrettable literary pretensions, painted his toenails red one December afternoon in 1929 in a Manhattan apartment he had borrowed from an artist friend. He lounged in bed a while, swigging Scotch companionably with his mistress, Josephine Rotch Bigelow, a beautiful young married woman from another prominent Back Bay clan. Then, apparently with her enthusiastic approval, and in the best of moods, he killed her with a pistol, and a couple of hours later shot himself. The soles of his feet were found to be tattooed with crosses...
...instant she saw the faces of the four veteran United States Auto Club drivers who had judged her in the U.S.A.C. 20-lap "rookie test" last Monday afternoon, Janet Guthrie feared the worst. Solemn, with eyes that avoided hers, Gary Bettenhausen, Al Loquasto Jr., Tom Bigelow and Graham McCrae offered their critiques: "shaky," "afraid to go to the wall," "frightened." Then Bettenhausen could contain himself no longer and began to laugh...
...s.o.b.s!" blurted Guthrie, 38, the first female to break into the super-macho world of Indy-car racing. The fact is, Guthrie had passed the Indianapolis 500's rookie test with honors. "The smoothest rookie I've ever seen," proclaimed Bigelow. Added Loquasto: "Definitely a heads-up driver...
...Bigelow of the Kansas City Kings and Jim O'Brien, a former standout at Boston College and in the ABA, are among the big names on the rosters of the three squads who will compete with the Classics for first honors in the tournament...
...they inevitably look for leadership to the Manhattan-headquartered First National City Bank. By embarking upon one daring innovation after another, Citibank has indisputably established itself as the premier pacesetter of U.S. banking. The man who charts Citibank's bold course is a tall, sinewy iconoclast named Walter Bigelow Wriston. An uncommon blend of hard-driving executive and reflective, sometimes cynical intellectual, Chairman Wriston arguably exerts greater influence on American financial methods and mores than any other banker-and perhaps even more than all of them combined...