Word: clara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclusive southeast side and its well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska's Governor Victor Anderson at the Capitol a few blocks away, Lauer Ward, 47, came home. When he opened his front door, Starkweather...
Born. To Richard Herrick, 26, first human to receive a successfully transplanted kidney (from his identical twin Ronald-TIME, Jan. 3, 1955), and Clara Burta Herrick, 27, a nurse who attended him at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital: a daughter, their first child; in Worcester, Mass. Name: Marjorie Helen. Weight...
...gives the executive a chance to gain a broader perspective by throwing him together with men from many and varied fields (both the Bank of America and Forest Lawn cemetery send their executives to California colleges). Says Dr. Joseph Trickett, professor of management at the University of Santa Clara, and onetime executive: "When you take a man whose work has made him provincial and send him off to Harvard, he sees other men from the entire country with the same problems he faces. It makes him read more, think more, be more savvy...
France's precocious (10) Poetess Minou Drouet was starring in a movie titled Clara and the Crooks, a sentimental tale about a lovable tyke who reforms a gang of bandits through her inexorable sweetness and innocence. During a recess at the suburban Paris studio, little Minou chirped excitedly about her film career: "We have had several scenarios offered to us, but I didn't like them. In one of the stories I was supposed to strangle a dog. Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save...
...right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa Elman, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin, the Juilliard Quartet, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Baritone George London, Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Guiomar Novae's, the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the Quartette di Roma, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel, Baritone Theodor...