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Word: cecil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brennan will now advise Cecil B. Roberts, Director of Buildings and Grounds, who is in charge of filling Toohy's position. Roberts has reportedly interviewed several candidates already...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Harvard Fails to Hire Cambridge Police Chief | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...Riverside (12-226). Monk was a pioneer in the controlled use of space in his writing and playing, and his tonal practices are totally original. He is also one of the great wits of jazz. Try one of the several records on which he appears as a solo pianist. Cecil Taylor occupies the position of enfant terrible of the piano which Monk once held. His music--sometimes only peripherally music--consists largely of totally free improvising. It is an exhilarating and frequently terrifying experience. His best work to date may be found on Candid 8006. The most important contributions...

Author: By Ron Brown, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1961 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...newspapers, more than anyone else in the world. This year Newspaper Collector Thomson branched out into magazine buying, was just about to close a deal for a big British periodical publishing house, Odhams Press Ltd. (200 magazines, newspapers, trade and technical journals and annual directories), when Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King beat him to the checkbook (TIME, Feb. 24). Annoyed but undaunted, Thomson sat on his millions, waiting for another chance. Last week it came. For a mere $3,920,000, Roy Thomson bought six British magazines that King might well have wanted for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Collector | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million the $81 million shipping fortune he inherited in 1933. Among the vast Ellerman holdings: breweries, real estate-and the largest single share in Cecil King's mammoth Daily Mirror group (15%-20%; there is no majority stockholder). "I wanted responsibility, and they simply wanted a good investment," says Thomson of the negotiations with the Illustrated group, which left Ellerman with a sizable dividend-bearing interest in the organization. "Now they have the investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Collector | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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