Word: kerrs
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...Gift. Another good Senate friend of Baker's was Oklahoma's millionaire Democrat Robert S. Kerr (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc.). Before he died last January, Kerr was one of the Senate's most powerful members. At one point, Baker got a $275,000 mortgage on Serv-U Corp. from Oklahoma City's Fidelity National Bank, of which the Kerr family owns...
...couple of weeks ago, Baker journeyed to Oklahoma City to see Kerr-McGee's President Dean A. McGee and the late Senator's son, Robert Jr. He said he wanted to find proof of the fact that Senator Kerr had once handed him $40,000 as a gift, told McGee that the Senator had said, "I want you to have the money. Be sure and report it on your income tax." But both McGee and young Kerr denied that the Senator had given Baker any money, insisted that there were no records of any gift. "I think...
Novelist-Screenwriter Peter Viertel, who was once Ava's constant companion in Paris and Mexico during the filming of The Sun Also Rises some years ago, is also in Puerto Vallarta, since he is now the husband of Deborah Kerr, who is playing a Nantucket spinster in the film. Viertel is understandably wary of Ava, but he is also a little skittish with Director John Huston. He worked on the screenplay of Huston's African Queen and followed up with a novel called White Hunter, Black Heart, which was a thinly disguised, malicious portrait of Huston...
...compared Pusey's book with The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, and said: "The contrast between the intellectual qualities revealed in these two volumes helps explain why our newer, more 'public' institutions have begun to overtake their more prestigious, more tradition-burdened, more alumni-burdened rivals. If during the last decade the roles of the two men had been reversed, it is doubtful that the history of Harvard would have been very different...
Born. To Jean Kerr, 40, millionairess playwright (Mary, Mary), and Walter Kerr, 50, New York Herald Tribune drama critic: their sixth child, first daughter; in Manhattan...