Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Board. Born in Geneva while his parents were making the Grand Tour, Doug Dillon followed a pedigreed path: from Groton ('27) to Harvard ('31) with a B.A. to his father's Manhattan investment banking firm of Dillon, Read...
...aside while the other parties to the dispute-Greece and Turkey-finally sat down together. Last week, after 55 hours of hard and friendly bargaining in neutral Zurich, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis came down the main stairway of the Dolder Grand Hotel beaming at each other like a couple of old school chums. As they toasted each other in champagne, their staffs put the finishing touches on a 200-page outline constitution for an independent Cypriot republic...
...grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...
...frenetic state of life, like trying to run the Grand National," moaned Dr. Caroll M. Williams, professor of Biology, yesterday. Dr. Williams, who recently found in humans a juvenile hormone that may possibly control aging, has been engulfed by requests for what deluded octogenarians seem to believe is a "miracle rejuvenator," a "Peter Pan" wonder drug...
Launched by a Milanese comic-book publishing house after World War II, the first fumetto magazine, Grand Hotel, was simply a serialized cartoon romance. In 1947 a competitive firm substituted live models, posed them before a camera, and the fumetti art form was fixed...