Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Rapids, Mich...
...occasion. Last to arrive were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. As he pulled off his overcoat, the black-tied Duke asked if this was a white-tie occasion, then muttered, "Well, it's too damn late to change anyway!" and toddled up the red-carpeted grand staircase...
This was her last grand party. Long ailing, Mrs. Mae Caldwell Manwaring Plant Hay ward Rovensky died last July, at 75, in Clarendon Court, her 33-room summer house next door to the Vanderbilts' 23-room "Beaulieu" in Newport, R.I. (She is survived by her fourth husband, John E. Rovensky, Manhattan financier, whom she married in 1954.) This week her Manhattan house, the last of the fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions to be fully occupied, will go on the block...
...Webster. A balky cast-iron shoe on the rear diesel rubbed on the third rail, started a fire that stopped the train in its tracks. After 25 minutes the fire was subdued, and so was President Alpert. Said he, as the Dan'l Webster moved into Grand Central Terminal. 55 minutes late: "If this train had proceeded another five or six miles, I would have been a hero. But it didn't and I'm not." Later, as the damaged engine and two cars made their way to the repair shop, the devil had another...
...mission is contained in the original charter. ∙ But while everyone wants a study, the question of who will make it has already touched off a hot political argument. Representative Patman and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, both jealous guardians of congressional prerogatives, have put in their bids for a grand-scale "investigation" by Congress. Many other lawmakers, who know Patman as a longtime foe of FRB, are afraid of just that. As House Minority Leader Joseph Martin says, "Congress could turn the study into a witch hunt," and thus confuse instead of clarify the issues. But the main reason that...