Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed a celebrity-studded white-tie S.R.O. audience that she is as great a performer as she is a singer. Told that a bomb may have been planted under the stage of the Midland Theater, Callas sang a Don Giovanni aria before she allowed Governor James T. Blair Jr. to shoo her fans outside, kept to her dressing room nearby while cops searched high and low for half an hour, finished her program after the bomb scare was pronounced a hoax. After a thunderous ovation, Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners...
...three years he worked on a key trustee: Ellsworth C. Alvord, a leading Washington tax attorney and the biggest individual stockholder in General Dynamics Corp. By the time Turbeville got through with Alvord, the lawyer was a convert. By the time Alvord got through with Frank Pace Jr., chairman of General Dynamics, Pace was a dedicated Northland trustee. By this year, tiny Northland has a solid gold board that many a university might envy. Among its members : Presidential Friend George E. Allen, Publisher Gardner Cowles, Industrialist Victor Emanuel, Movie Arbiter Eric Johnston, Financier Floyd B. Odium...
...Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...
Married. Debbie Montgomery Minardos Power, 27, widow of Cinemactor Tyrone Power; and Movie Scion Arthur Loew Jr., 33 ; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...