Word: earls
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William Helis, known in New Orleans as "The Golden Greek." Beginning as an immigrant dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over...
...before the war he was just as unobtrusive, and influential, in British high finance. Settling down in England after a World War I stint as an airman, he soon had a finger in radio, gramophones, aviation, steel, real estate and construction (he built London's huge sports arena, Earl...
Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland...
...years, Captain Kidd has put hundreds of students through such paces. One was the late General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson; another, California's Governor Earl Warren. ("An average student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings...
John R. Meyer '51 will be operation director, Raymond A. Reistor '52 publicity director, and Jay E. Janson '50 and Earl M. Kulp '52 executive committee members...