Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate committee began investigating organized crime. Drury arranged to meet a Kefauver investigator early this month to prepare the way for the committee's full-dress entry into Chicago. Word got around that Drury was also getting ready to channel embarrassing information about Police Captain Daniel A. ("Tubbo") Gilbert, the Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff, to Tubbo's Republican opponent. In his 18 years as chief investigator for the State's Attorney, Gilbert had never pinned a rap on any important mobster...
Recently Bill Drury got in touch with one Marvin Bas, a small-fry lawyer who was also collecting dirt for Gilbert's Republican opponent. One day last week, in a strangely agitated state, Drury visited his own lawyer. "I'm awfully hot," said Drury. "I need protection." Drury's lawyer telephoned a Kefauver committee investigator for bodyguards...
When Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet started teaching Latin and Greek at Columbia University in 1937, he was struck with one persistent thought: "My students were always coming up to me after class and saying, 'Goodness, this is fascinating stuff. But why the devil wasn't it taught us before?' And I'd say, 'It probably was.' And then they'd admit, 'Well, I guess...
...Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...profits, Launder & Gilliat were making the most of their independence. While Launder worked on a film called Beauty Queen (about "the kind of a girl who starts in the News of the World and ends up there, too"), Gilliat was mulling over a movie biography of Gilbert & Sullivan...