Word: harold
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...hour), fringe benefits and, perhaps most important, the union dues check-off system, which will give it more leverage in dealing with recalcitrant locals. But behind Captain Bradley's back there still loomed the figures of his New York leaders, e.g., Manhattan's Harold (Mickey) Bowers, Brooklyn's Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, always unruly and ever ready to pounce...
Last week Victoria's great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth (with the willing assent of her Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan) decided by royal decree what should be the style and status of her husband. "The Queen," said an official bulletin in the London Gazette, "has been pleased to declare her will and pleasure that His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, shall henceforth be known as His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
...three of Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive...
...chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr...
...Harder They Fall. In Chicago, testifying in a separate-maintenance suit, Harold Schwuchow told the judge he wanted to live with his 145-lb. wife, but not until she gained back the 75 Ibs. she had starved off since June...