Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulwer-Lytton. As the daughter and second child of an unsuccessful and fiddle-footed land speculator, she grew up with no settled home. She was born in Ontario, Ore., but her childhood memories begin with Iliff, Colo. ("It looked like a stage set for High Noon"), where the McGinleys settled awhile to farm an acreage that her father had been unable to sell...
...second structure for exhibitions was bankrolled by Savings and Loan Tycoon Bart Lytton. The permanent collection hangs in the last pavilion-four tiers of balconies around an 85-ft.-high interior court, which was due to the generosity of Financier Howard Ahmanson...
Hunt Foods recently gave a public library to Fullerton, Calif., where its cannery is located, and the Chase Manhattan Bank is helping to restore Wall Street's Federal Hall and a colonial town on Staten Island. President Bart Lytton of Lytton Savings & Loan Assoc. has commissioned a $60,000 work by Sculptor Henry Moore for Los Angeles' Art Museum Plaza...
Among Unruh's many critics is Bart Lytton, a Los Angeles savings and loan millionaire, who does not believe Unruh has paid him the deference he deserves as one of California's top Democratic fund raisers. Unruh describes Lytton as "a mad genius, in equal parts." Lytton recently suggested that President Kennedy name Unruh to replace outgoing U.S. Postmaster General J. Edward Day. Explained Lytton: "There is a growing feeling among prominent and responsible Democrats that if Unruh is the issue in 1964, we'll probably lose the state. I am trying to advance his career beyond...
When he heard of Lytton's notion, Ed Day, himself a sometime Californian, said: "I am confident that the President will not appoint a man whose main qualifications are political manipulation and power plays. I am sure the President wants a continuation of the emphasis on better mail service rather than boss politics in the Post Office Department." Lytton's gibes did not bother Big Daddy a bit, but Day's did. After all, Unruh had recommended Day to the President for the Postmaster General's office in the first place...