Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmest admirers turned out to be enthusiasts of the radical right wing, who seemed determined to set her up as a martyr and symbol-like General Edwin Walker. The day before the coup, Millionaire Patrick Frawley, president of Eversharp, Inc., and staunch supporter of Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, gave a private luncheon for her to meet some of the state's leading conservatives. After that, members of the superconservative California Young Republicans offered to pay for her $90-a-day suite at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. But Robert Gaston, president...
...Waffle." To build the new Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale turned to Gordon Bunshaft, who won fame for designing Park Avenue's green glass Lever House. Given a site facing the classically colonnaded Freshman Commons, and money from the S & H Green Stamp magnates, Edwin ('07), Frederick ('09) and the late Walter ('10) Beinecke, Bunshaft resolved to create a "treasure box." He erected a 58-ft.-high cube of granite-covered steel trusses and translucent marble set on four steel bearings atop its own Woodbury White granite plaza. Headlined the irreverent Yale Daily News...
...hard to straighten out a company, but to make it grow-that's another question," says President William Edwin Grace, 55, of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp. Five years ago, when Grace was called in to straighten out the nation's largest truck-trailer maker, Fruehauf was loaded with a $250 million debt and a big fleet of unsold trailers, and was heading toward red ink. Grace overhauled Fruehauf's loose corporate structure, set up a rigid system of divisions and committees copied from General Motors, and "gave people authority as well as responsibility to get their...
...subpoenas to be sure he got testimony about the damage done to an old Southampton mansion after the debut of Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18. After hearing the story, a grand jury returned indictments against 13 young social lions and one girl, Subdeb Mimi Russell, 17, daughter of Vogue Publisher Edwin Russell. If convicted of the misdemeanor, they each face up to six months in jail and $250 in fines...
Addressing Harvard's Latin American Affairs Association, Edwin M. Martin stated that, "A restrictive travel policy is justifiable because we must set a good example for the nations of Latin America." He stressed the fact that in the past Latin Americans had traveled to Cuba specifically for the purpose of indoctrination in revolutionary methods. "We can hardly hope to discourage these activities if we allow American students to travel freely to Cuba...