Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Roger Gilbert Bannister, M.D., 27, the first four-minute miler (3:59.4), and Portrait Artist Moyra Jacobsson Bannister, 27: a daughter, their first child; in London. Name: Carol Erin Elver. Weight...
...midnight in 1862 General Charles C. Gilbert, a Regular Army man, reined in his horse and chewed out a captain of the loth Indiana volunteers who were sprawled along a Kentucky road taking a breather. Why, demanded Gilbert, didn't the captain have the regiment stand at attention as the corps commander rode by? Angrily, the colonel of the regiment replied that his men had been marching night and day for a week in an attempt to beat Bragg's Confederates to Louisville, and he "would not hold a dress parade at midnight for any damned fool living...
Sullivan Sans Gilbert? As a composer, Bernstein has suffered one curious fate: his serious music, at least, is almost never played by others. If Conductor Bernstein did not come to the aid of Composer Bernstein, it might never get played at all. The main case that can be made against his music is that it is eclectic?and Bernstein knows it. Sometimes, when he hears a piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style...
Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia...
...Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington looked down upon 52 members of the Eisenhower family, ten Nixons and a handful of old friends and servants gathered in the East Room of the White House. It was a quiet, midmorning group, and yet the occasion was both formal and historic: since their terms legally expired on Sunday (and by tradition the public ceremony could not be held until Monday -see below), Dwight David Eisenhower and Richard Milhous Nixon were about to take the oath of office in private ceremony, i.e., unwatched by public or press...