Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evanston, Ill...
Farr was typical of Gilbert's associates. No man to prey on widows and orphans. Gilbert cultivated people who were able to help him socially in return for a rids on his financial coattails. Said one Manhattan socialite: "I always thought Gilbert was rather gauche, ill at ease and pushy. But I just felt that a guy that ambitious for himself might bring my money up with him." Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging...
Three chairs stood empty at the directors' meeting of the Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia last week. They belonged to ill and aging Mary Curtis Bok Zimbalist, 85, daughter of the late Cyrus H.K. Curtis, who founded the company 71 years ago; to her son, Gary Bok, 57, who was also too ill to attend the meeting; and to President Robert E. MacNeal, 58, who was traveling in Europe. But even if all three had been there, the Curtis family and officers of the proud old company would have been in the minority-a position they had to accept...
...serenity of the Hollandia coast and an orange-tinted postcard sunset among swaying palm fronds. Five of the explorers, including the photographers (Gaisseau had to take over the camera), had dropped out, some of them being rescued by helicopter. Three of the native bearers were dead, 30 men were ill with dysentery and malaria. But their heroic physical ordeal had been a journey in time, back to the Stone Age, that will leave viewers wrung out and shirt-drenched in an air-conditioned movie house...
Hinsdale, ILL., Salt Creek Playhouse: Gigi, with Margaret O'Brien...