Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home's Cabinet; he later placed a poor third in the 1965 party vote that installed Edward Heath as Opposition leader. He boils with emotion on the race question, particularly since his constituency has lately been invaded by large numbers of immigrant coloreds. He did not bother to inform the party leadership about his speech, but tipped off TV and newsmen. They soon found...
...some 1,000 publishers who attended the annual American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in New York last week, the oldest was Edward King Gaylord, 95. Yet he was far from the least active. Characteristically, the Oklahoma City publisher attended almost every session of the four-day affair and found time as well to pay a call on his newspapers' national advertising representative, George Katz, 96. The Oklahoman's only complaint: "In New York, people get to work too late and go home too early...
...find too much to say about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
Walter's older brother Edward (a former Cambridge mayor) was the toastmaster. The "galaxy of stars at the head table" (and lesser lights in the audience), whom he introduced bore the family names that count in Cambridge politics--O'Neill, Crane, Danehy, Lynch, and Good, to name a few. Some had gone to St. Paul's School with Walter; others were his near or distant relatives; all were his political allies, at least for the moment...
Only one Councillor--Thomas W. Danehy--voted against the motion, but three--Edward A. Crane '35, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Thomas H. D. Mahoney--abstained from voting. "I never give my vote in advance by proxy," Crane said...