Word: lytton
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...forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...delegate, Jimmy Byrnes appointed Major General Frank McCoy, 70, U.S.A. (retired), who in his 41 years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs in Manchuria in 1932. He was on the Roberts Commission which made the first investigation of Pearl Harbor, is now president of the Foreign Policy Association...
Life Begins at 85. From then until 1932, Henry Lytton's luck was all good. He and his manager-son, George, had sold their stores to Fashion Park Associates, Inc. in 1929 for stock then worth $7,000,000, and the prospect ahead was for rest at last. But by 1932, Fashion Park had overexpanded, and in reorganization Henry & Son got their own stores back. Then George died. At 87, Henry Lytton went back to work...
...Henry Lytton was always a little tired, and expected to be; he only worked a 2½-hour day. And he had to watch himself (he gave up smoking at 81, drinking at 92). But he kept busy. On the day he signed the lease, he had also to go across the hall to see capable, 36-year-old Willard Cole, Hub executive Vice President and Lytton's probable successor. Then there were ads to be criticized, brief conferences with store executives, additions to the list of invitations to his 99th birthday party (July...
Leaning heavily on his cane and shuffling toward the door, Henry Lytton sang the words again. And he sang...