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...minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that the first-class passengers are third-class people, and vice versa...
When he went to Washington in 1939, Graham joined a group of eligible bachelors in a pillared Arlington mansion called Hockley Hall. Slim, attractive Kay Meyer, then 22, who attended Hockley Hall parties, invited all the residents to a coming-out party for her sister Ruth at the Eugene Meyer mansion on Washington's Crescent Place. There Graham met Kay, a $25-a-week editorial assistant on her father's paper. A University of Chicago graduate (and ex-student of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), she was as keen a New Deal supporter as Graham himself. After...
...health" last May (TIME, May 11), went back into the advertising business as chairman of the board of St. Louis' D'Arcy Advertising Co., 16th biggest U.S. ad company. ¶ Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president of Westvaco Chemical Corp. and United Chemicals, Inc., and president of W. Va. Charcoal Co. before joining Davison as executive vice president...
...took three bouts Friday, with decisions over Gibson of Washington State, 6 to 0, Fiegal of Waynesburg, 4 to 0, and Hockley of Wyoming, 4 to 2. After losing a 7-1 decision to Mueller in the semifinals Saturday, Lee went on to clinch third place with decisions of Crancer of Arkansas and McCarron of Iowa Teachers...
...joint class meeting of '94 and '95 Saturday, informal resolutions were adopted expressing the sorrow felt by the members of '94 and '95 at the deaths of W. S. Hockley, J. Farnum Brown, and Franklin Whitall of the class of '94, and Edwin S. Bach '95. Committees from each class were appointed who sent letters of sympathy to the parents of the deceased. They were: Ninety-four, G. C. Lee, Jr., L. Heckscher, J. F. Smith, and J. J. Griswold; ninety-five, R. W. Emmons, 2d, R. D. Wrenn, W. W. Caswell, N. W. Bingham...