Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas Texans -is soft-spoken Lamar Hunt, 28, onetime bench-riding end at Southern Methodist and son of Texas-sized Millionaire H. L. Hunt. Brash Bud Adams, 37, owner of the Houston Oilers, is the son of the chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Barron Hilton, 32, son of Hosteler Conrad Hilton, is president of the Los Angeles Chargers...
...Quaker, an abolitionist and a temperance man who naturally took to the cause of women's rights. The hard knocks he suffered for his views swung Susan behind him and united them both in battling the world. Her first battle: boarding school, which she hated. Joseph Conrad's aristocratic Polish father was exiled to a remote part of Russia for revolutionary agitation against the Czar, made a meager living translating literature. A hungry reader from the age of five, the lonely boy was schooled largely by helping his father. Orphaned at eleven, he was sent to school...
...mellifluous voice is the chief asset of Richard Conrad, who plays Frederick. He also displays a slightly satirical and detached attitude toward the script, shared to a lessor extent by the rest of the company, and far preferable to the D'Oyly Carte embalming job. Occasionally he lapsed into honeyed blandness, but he usually kept his acting good enough to let his singing make him a first-rate performer...
...Editor Mort Stern's desk one day last week, Stern opened it to the editorial page. After one horrified look, he sped a Stern command to the composing room. Two hours later, when the Post's second edition hit the streets, the work of Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad was gone...
...Beyond the limits of good taste," said Editor Stern, substituting a syndicated cartoon by Bill Mauldin for the absent Conrad. "It was cruel," agreed Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt. Said chastened Cartoonist Conrad: "If the management wants to drop a cartoon or, substitute another one, that is its prerogative...