Word: grandees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defending Renoir's estate were his two sons, Cinema Director Jean (La Grande Illusion) and Ceramist Coco, and his grandson, Cameraman Claude. They contended that the Spaniard was merely a competent craftsman. "For there to be true co-authorship," argued the Renoirs' attorneys, "the law insists upon common...
Died. Edna Ferber, 80, grande dame of the big, romantic American novel, whose 32 books sold millions of copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And...
For all the advantages of diversification, Saunders always looked upon consolidation with the New York Central as his most important project. The two lines were in the process of beating each other into bankruptcy. As early as 1957, merger talks had started between Saunders' Pennsy predecessor, James M. Symes...
The photographs are monochrome and offset-reproduced, and the prose is conservationist and sternly isolationist, not to say jaunty in a scoutmasterly fashion. However, 65 of the 375 species of mammals in America-north of the Rio Grande-are given knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III...
Size and efficiency indeed were two elements that frightened the ICC when it first considered and turned down by a 6-to-5 vote a merger of lines that railroad men refer to as "The Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road...