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Ever since Pittsburgh Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick left his strong-willed daughter a fortune that has grown to at least $38 million in five decades, Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his "Christian" memory and devoting his cash to such cultural works as Manhattan's Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil...
Miss Lindsay said the committee was "receptive" to the students. Helen Gray, outgoing president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association, said yesterday. "The girls were very effective. I'm in the process of being educated...
...still a bonafide insurrection against a government which is little more than an agency of the Soong family"? 4 Of Mussolini, in 1935: "So great a man ... so wise a ruler"? 5 Of Richard Nixon, after a 1950 California senatorial vote: "I'm very happy that Helen Gahagan Douglas has just been defeated by Richard Nixon"? 6 And who errs, no fewer than four times, in referring to the late Time Inc. editor-in-chief as Henry C. Luce...
...meeting it was made very clear that the Committee's purpose was not to arbitrate or decide the issue but to make recommendations to the Radcliffe Council which, as Radcliffe's legal counsel advised, must have the final authority. Helen H. Gilbert Chairman Radcliffe Board of Trustees
...example, Phil Harris, Bobby Darin and Alan King were all in Las Vegas but not on the Show. So Dana had to settle for the likes of Abbe Lane, Jerry Lester, Frankie Laine and Helen O'Connell. Dana himself was hardly the picture of authority, and just barely held the rambling shows together...