Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harbor, Me., trailed by his chauffeur. He had not phoned ahead for an appointment; nor had he, like many of the wealthy summer residents of Mount Desert* Island, sent the chauffeur down after working hours to bring one of the barbers back to his mansion. "Mr. Rockefeller," Barber Jim Corbett likes to tell his friends "just comes on in and takes his chances...
This time John Davison Rockefeller Jr. did not have to wait. He doffed his topcoat, jacket and vest, hung them on a hook on the wall facing the mirrors and four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions...
...There (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). The Birth of Modern Boxing, a re-enactment of the John L. Sullivan-James J. Corbett fight...
Died. Colonel Jim Corbett, 80, big-game hunter and tracker, author of best-selling books on his jungle campaigns against the big cats of India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track...
...virus epidemic of minor proportions has hit the University, according to Miss Rita A. Corbett, Superintendent of Stillman Infirmary. In the first two weeks of February as many students entered Stillman as were admitted during the entire month last year...