Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt, most of New York's 400 agreed that it was a most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace's social assets were far more modest. Her father, Richard T. Wilson, was a onetime Georgia farm boy whom well-bred New Yorkers regarded with distaste because he had made his fortune himself and had started it by speculating in cotton while more gentlemanly Southerners were off fighting...
Evangelist Billy Graham returned from Korea with the news that he had discovered a new breed of G.I. Said he: "I never once saw a pin-up picture. But I saw hundreds of Bibles...
...SHIPWRECKED (244 pp.)-Graham Greene-Viking...
After having breakfast one day, at the Institute of 1770, with T.R., upon the invitation of my classmate. Archie Roosevelt, I became a firm adherent of the "Preparedness" school. Graham B. Blaine ball in an editorial campaign to get a Harvard Regiment, started. As I remember, we were at one time summoned to the house of President Lowell, who tried to dissuade us from this project. Later on, Mr. Lowell changed his mind and withdrew his objections. The episode impressed itself upon my mind, because it was my first experience with "freedom of the press...
...Princeton, last year, the program made over $10,000 employing almost 25 students, and was used to help support other undergraduate employment programs which fell into the red. Although Graham W. Tayler '48, Director of the Student Office, hopes to expand the program here, it will at present employ only...