Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ned Sparks (real name: Edward A. Sparkman), 73, sulphur-voiced, sourpuss cynicomedian (Lady for a Day, Imitation of Life), who once asked Lloyd's of London for $100,000 insurance against having a picture taken of him grinning ("I didn't get this wooden face by accident. It's been my trademark, and it's paid me well"); of an intestinal block; in Victorville, Calif...
Idea Man. In Great Falls, Mont., after a month-long contest to name the new club for employees of the Great Northern Railway, the prize went to the suggestion of Club President Lloyd J. Warnke: "The Great Northern Railway Employees Club...
William Alexander, William L. Jouhin, and Peter Tolkmith have taken part in seven sports, and James M. Bardeen, David M. Donaldson, Lincoln E. Ford, Jay F. Hundley, Kelvin L. Kean, Thomas W. Lloyd, Joel H. Pitcoff, and Richard A. Saval have participated in six sports...
...hand as the President, arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems of 1957, Ike and Mac exchanged reminiscences of the wartime days when Diplomat Macmillan served as British...
...ocean, I remember, was very rough coming over"), the memory of Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American community of New Braunfels, Texas. A few days before Ben's eighth birthday, his father was killed in an industrial accident in San Antonio. The boy shouldered...