Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederic N. Schwartz, 51, was named president of Bristol-Myers Co. (Ipana, Bufferin, Vitalis), to succeed Lee H. Bristol, elected chairman of the board. The first nonmember of the Bristol or Myers families to occupy the presidency, Syracuse Graduate ('31) Schwartz did sales work for New England manufacturers of metal stampings and surgical instruments until 1942, went to Washington to serve with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He joined Bristol-Myers in 1945, in 1946 moved up from executive vice president to president of Bristol Laboratories, an ethical drug subsidiary...
Roosevelt's enormous energy found a new outlet in the fall of his junior year--Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill. He courted her as energetically as he did everything else which interested him. "See that girl?" he had said at a Pudding function. "I am going to marry her. She won't have me, but I am going to have...
...natural sciences waned. He wrote to his good friend Harry Minot, who had accompanied him on many a naturalist expedition, that he had done almost no collecting in the summer of 1879. In 1880, he added: "I write to you to announce my engagement to Miss Alice Lee; but do not speak of it till Monday. I have been in love with her for nearly two years now, and have made everything subordinate to winning her; so you can perhaps understand a change in my ideas as regards science...
With his social background, however, Roosevelt gained acceptance, at least in the clubbie set. He climbed the social terraces at Harvard--the Dickey, the Hasty Pudding, and that loftiest of social honors, the Porcellian. But he must have been a somewhat unorthodox club member. One day he took Alice Lee to lunch at the "Porc," never before polluted by the presence of a woman. "The luncheon with Alice," Pringle notes, "caused manly indignation in the breasts of fellow members, and the true Porcellian man will deny even now that it ever could have happened...
Born. To John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 40, junior Senator from Massachusetts and 1960 White House daydreamer (TIME, Dec. 2), and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 28: a daughter, their first child, by Caesarean section. Name: Caroline Bouvier. Weight...