Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awarded with "palship," Toots's ultimate accolade. He was favored by politicos; Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had him to the White House, and Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched down at Shor's now and then. But Toots made no attempt to attract the glossier types of café society. "Who needs ya?" he bellowed cheerily...
...Little Pool. Gleason's historic hangout is Toots Shor's restaurant, which reopens on a new site this week on Manhattan's West 52nd Street with Gleason figuring centrally in the ceremonies. "After all," says Jackie, "I'm the elder statesman of the joint." A close friend of Shor for more than 20 years, Gleason calls him Clamhead. He has long since earned Shor's highest accolade: "Jackie drinks good...
...most imposing and impossible literary family, leaked the first bit of spleen: that D. H. Lawrence would be among her major targets for setting his Lady Chatterley's Lover at the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire and modeling the novel's war-maimed, cuckolded baronet after the elder of her brothers, Sir Osbert. "My brother," noted the Plantagenet-descended poetess, "is a baronet, and he fought like a tiger for his country in the First World War. I don't know why Lawrence should have done this to Osbert, who never harmed...
Presbyterian authority is based on control of a local church by its session of elected elders. The minister-a teaching elder rather than a ruling elder-is the nonvoting moderator of the session, but technically works for the regional presbytery. Interpreting this chain of command literally, the session of Second Church had always been firmly in control. It was opposed not only to the way Hudson ran the church but to his running it at all. Says one elder, Attorney Louis Lowe: "We realized within a month or two after Dr. Hudson was here that he wasn't going...
...flashed, the sale began with a portrait by the 16th century Dutch painter Jan Mostaert. A portrait by Van Dyck went for a disappointing $27,000, which was $53,000 below the Parke-Bernet estimate. On the other hand, a splendid Princess Sibylle of Cleves, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons of London for $105,000, about twice the estimate. After the Cranach came the Rembrandt...