Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's flyleaf lists 25 prominent characters (in fact there are at least 27), and they belong to two camps: the Tisbournes, among whom there is money, and the Gibson Greys, among whom there is none. They are all variously articulate, nosy, telephone-calling, letter-writing Londoners who are profoundly preoccupied with themselves...
...DICK GIBSON SHOW, by Stanley Elkin. An aging radio announcer turns his life and profession into a sensitive but comic American myth...
...youngster who had been made part of the System threw Newark, N.J., into mild turmoil last week. Lawrence Hamm, 17, who was appointed to the local school board last summer by Mayor Kenneth Gibson, introduced a resolution permitting the predominantly black city's classrooms to fly the red, black and green flag of black liberation.* The resolution passed (in the absence of four of the board's nine members), and Newark schoolchildren planned to hoist the colors...
...Philips release, Szeryng and the London Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson give the first performance of the third concerto since the last documented performance by Paganini 138 years ago. Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic opera bouffe...
...lawyer, Powell has been a partner for 34 years in Virginia's biggest and most powerful firm, Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson. In time, his courtly ways combined with his talent for organization to make him a power in the profession: president of the American Bar Association (1964-65), president of the American College of Trial Lawyers (1969-70), president of the American Bar Foundation (1969-71). As head of the A.B.A., he was credited with efforts to speed courtroom procedures and to provide legal aid to the needy. All in all, says Professor Jon R. Waltz of Northwestern, Powell...