Word: donners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autobiographical fantasy about an old writer named John Donner who returns to his home town in Pennsylvania, won the National Book Award, defeating such competition as John Updike's Rabbit, Run, John Hersey's The Child Buyer, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The present novel is a sequel to Kronos. The fantasy is gone. It is a straightforward account of the life of John Donner's fa ther, a country preacher...
...embarrassment of riches. With Frederic Donner, a tack-sharp onetime accountant, as chairman, G.M. now commands 55.7% of the U.S.-made auto market. That is a company record, the highest in the industry since Henry Ford's model Ts got 60% in 1921, and more than enough to prompt some nervous glances from G.M. officials toward the U.S. Justice Department, whose antitrust division constantly eyes the affairs of the world's biggest manufacturer. This year G.M. has conspicuously dropped its usual practice of stepping up Chevrolet advertising as its sales increase. There have been no recent dealer incentive...
Robert H. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, will receive the Priestley Memorial Award for 1962 from Dickinson College. The annual $1000 award will be given March 30 for "research benefiting mankind...
Family Style. With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area. The friends and relatives who have taken turns keeping Mary company join her for dinner served family style, with everyone seated around a big table to eat hearty, ranch-hand's food. All is clapboard-clean and comfortable, and the easy, friendly pace has had its benign effect on Mary. Friends say that she looks wonderful...
Checking into the quietly flossy Donner Trail Guest Ranch outside Reno, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, 54, began waiting out the six weeks' residence period required before she could sue for a Nevada divorce from New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Though Mrs. Rockefeller refused to see reporters, and her attorney, former Nevada Democratic National Committeeman William Woodburn, was scarcely more communicative, the presumption was that the grounds for the action would be the familiar Nevada catchall: mental cruelty...