Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his three-year Navy career, Percy married Jeanne Dickerson, daughter of a Chicago plumbing contractor. They had three children-twin girls and a boy. Percy meanwhile had returned to Bell & Howell, become McNabb's right-hand man and been named to the board of directors-at 23. In 1947 Jeanne, who was not a Christian Scientist, underwent an operation for ulcerative colitis that was deemed successful. Still, her doctors recommended a second operation. This one brought on complications. Jeanne was given penicillin, to which she suffered adverse reactions. Other drugs were tried, but to no avail. After...
...more youthful News, founded in 1925, swore allegiance to the Democratic Party from 1954 to '57, when it belonged to Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, longtime treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. In 1957 McCloskey sold it to Annenberg and the paper returned to the Republican fold...
...waters are wide open. With a license from Florida's Internal Improvement Board, a salvage contractor gets exclusive rights to work a specific area for $100 a year, in exchange must turn over one-fourth of any loot to the state. As treasure fever mounts, Florida officials have become increasingly worried that the state is not getting its proper share. Last week the Internal Improvement Board chairman, who is happily named William Kidd (no kin to the pirate captain), admitted that the state does not post any inspectors aboard salvage ships...
Divorced. By Dinah Shore, 47, TV's old-fashioned girl: Maurice Smith, 43, Palm Springs contractor; after one year of marriage, no children; in Indio, Calif...
...only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi, is a 46-year-old Hungarian refugee. The captain, Bill Knecht, is 34, a plumbing contractor, the father of six. But in the semifinals, Vesper shocked the experts by beating Harvard, the undefeated Eastern champion, by two lengths...