Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice president. A World War II colonel, he served on General Eisenhower's staff from D-day in Normandy to V-E day. ¶ Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee's Cumberland University ('14), joined Lorillard in 1922 as a salesman. The executive shakeup. which also brought in a new advertising director, gives more company control to sales experts, less...
...bushes in Cookham." For Spencer, who patterned the Virgin May after his counsin, a milkmaid, it seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...
Onetime TV Quizmaster Rudolph Halley, 42, long a student of gambling as chief counsel of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, turned up as a stockholder in a sport and gambling enterprise, to operate in Puerto Rico. The promotion: a $1,500,000 jai alai palace, to be built just outside San Juan; it will seat 3,500 aficionados, provide them with such trimmings as five bars and parimutuel betting windows. Promoter Halley holds 30,000 shares of Puerto Rican Jai Alai, Inc.'s new stock. A Securities & Exchange Commission spokesman allowed that the public, in return for putting...
Although he had already been granted three adjournments, Hurst said his attorney, Gregory Halley, would ask for another postponement today. His case will come up before Judge Sugarman of the Southern District Court...
...discussing the investigatory duties of a committee counsel, Halley also defended the controversial trip to Europe made last year by Roy M. Cohn and G. David Schine, two principals in the current hearings...