Word: hunters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rejected her past-because it was filled with tragedy. Her mother died of diphtheria when she was eight. She had a deep love for her father Elliott, a jolly man, a big-game hunter and a younger brother of Teddy Roosevelt. He called her "Little Nell." But he died, with alcoholism as a contributing cause, when she was nine. Eleanor went to live with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Valentine Hall, a stern disciplinarian. She was horribly unhappy until she went off to a French finishing school in England. There she came to recognize her own mental powers. "More and more...
...that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis zone." One house hunter in County Galway wanted to know the prevailing wind. Told that it comes from the southwest, he beamed: "Good. It crosses 3,000 miles of sea. No atomic dust." However, most middle-income Germans reason that owning a resort cottage is simply a good investment; on their own vacations, they...
Macy's made its centerpiece a 50-year-old, horse-drawn delivery wagon. Riders competed not only for the Schaefer (beer) Working Hunter Stake, the Scandinavian Airlines International Jumping Stake, the Revlon Special Jumper's Trophy, but-final irony-the Imperial (Chrysler) Challenge Trophy for jumpers. And the $800 boxes around the arena did not have the same dazzle of high society and high fashion that opening night once...
...Amory L. Haskell. There was some glitter of jewels, such as the diamond-decorated egg-sized emeralds on tiny Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel Newhouse (see PRESS). There were a few chic and social standouts, such as golden-haired Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, who rode in a working hunter class in the afternoon, then appeared for the evening opening in a simple black sheath topped by a shocking-pink jacket. There was a scattering of celebrities, such as New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, Banker David Rockefeller, Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Beatrice Lillie, and Playbore John Jacob...
...months, the nation's champion newspaper hunter, Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had stalked the enticing prey. Now it seemed all but in the bag. In Omaha, the World-Herald board of directors, their fears of absentee ownership apparently lulled by Newhouse assurances, accepted his bid of $40,065,780. All that intervened was a meeting of principal stockholders to ratify the board's decision. But last week, at the last moment. Outsider Newhouse lost his Omaha prize to a hometown...