Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt (Teddy Jr.), whose gallant but futile struggle to achieve greatness in the shadow of his father's fame is astutely chronicled by his widow. See BOOKS...
...mild in manner, mellow in voice, retiring with all but his closest friends. He is an Overseer of Harvard, like his father before him, and a conscientious do-gooder who actively aids many a fund drive and charitable organization. Though he makes more money ($402,389 last year) than all but a handful of men in U.S. industry, he lives modestly, thriftily drives a 1955 Oldsmobile. He speaks and eats sparingly, never smokes, has a single drink of Scotch each evening (with an occasional "dividend...
Robinson walked into M.I.T.'s offices and suggested that Griswold and the trustees needed a research staff to back up their own investment judgment. He had the right background. True, he had been born in Seattle, but only by a quirk of fate (his engineer father had taken his family there while working on a construction job). He was indisputably a Boston product. He had gone to Noble & Greenough and Harvard (1920), taken a dutiful fling at engineering, gone back to Harvard Business School to study finance, put in his time in a Boston investment banking house. The trustees...
...president and chief executive officer of Fuller Brush Co., to succeed his older brother. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed in a sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman (48-ft. ocean racing yawl) and a sports...
Passion for Nature. In Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning...