Word: harrison
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Dirksen's father, like most folks in those parts, was a Republican through and through. He proved it by naming his first-born son Benjamin Harrison; when his wife gave him twins, he seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of the House). Father Dirksen died when Everett was nine. He had made a good living painting fancywork on carriages and buggies. But he left little. The family lived in the section called "Beantown," where thrifty immigrants grew beans instead of flowers. Dirksen's mother, a hardy woman...
...bold idea, for Moore's recent robust and rugged style would probably be in startling contrast to the varied elegance of the four surrounding buildings: the low-slung theater originally designed by the late Eero Saarinen, Max Abramovitz' travertine-columned Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's fluted Metropolitan Opera House, Pietro Belluschi's Juilliard School of Music. The center's governing committee got Moore to look at the site, and last week, after Yorkshire-born Sculptor Moore pored over a model of the site, he agreed to take on what should be the most formidable...
...Wall Street's Blue Monday skid. But last week Eddy had a companion-handsome, French-born Olivier Coquelin, 32. Coquelin is the manager of a Manhattan cafè society watering spot called Le Club, where Eddy, bedazzled by a "board of governors" that includes Noel Coward, Rex Harrison and the Duke of Bedford, was an eager member. Said the loyal Olivier: "I have come to see zat Eddee does not go to zee dogs...
...grocer. Before she was cast by Richardson, her entire experience consisted of the role of a frog in a school play, the rear end of a horse in pantomime, and walk-on bits as an apprentice with the Liverpool Repertory Theater, whose alumni include Sir Michael Redgrave and Rex Harrison...
...Judges for this year's contest were Harrison Salisbury of the New York "Times," Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 of the American Heritage Publishing Company, and John Updike '54, novelist and short-story writer. The prize includes a $100 award...