Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DeBakey heard this hitherto unpublished story from Barren Beshoar, chief of TIME'S Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other...
...Lake Constance with Philip's sister the Dowager Margravine of Baden, Elizabeth visited the Nymphenburg porcelain factory in Munich and watched the German Olympics equestrian team go through its paces. Over a lunch of lobster Vierjahreszeiten, duckling a I'orange, peaches Bavarian and four German wines, she heard Bavaria's Premier Alfons Goeppel talk of the need for friendship between Britain and Germany. "We have been slow, perhaps, in realizing this," he said. "But there the famous phrase of your nation applies-better late than never...
...Magnate Arnold S. Kirkeby, 60, in an American Airlines jetliner crash had deprived his widow and daughter of $1,172,000 in anticipated earnings. Largest in New York negligence history, the Kirkeby award follows an Appellate Division decision that American was solely responsible for the disaster. Still to be heard: claims for as much as $10 million by relatives of at least nine other victims of the same March 1, 1962, crash...
...letter was a model of politesse. "Dear Mrs. Johnson-I just heard you were going to be in town today and wondered if you would like to listen to the Debate with us-I'm having a Listening Party at 1028 Connecticut Ave. and would love it if you came and brought anyone you like-" Then, as if to dismiss the whole affair as unimportant, she added, "But I expect you are exhausted from your travels (I loved your story in the N.Y. Herald Tribune) and are looking forward to relaxing and watching TV at home...
Without Authority. As it turned out, no one ever got to put in a bid. When Lady Bird heard that the letter was up for sale, she asked Liz Carpenter, her press secretary, to get it back. After trying unsuccessfully three times to reach Hamilton by phone, Liz dispatched a firm note requesting the letter's return. "Mrs. Johnson is absolutely certain," she wrote, "that she has never given away any letter sent to her by Mrs. Kennedy-in fact, it has always been her policy to retain all letters sent to her personally. Accordingly, we can only conclude...