Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he went to Washington in 1939, Graham joined a group of eligible bachelors in a pillared Arlington mansion called Hockley Hall. Slim, attractive Kay Meyer, then 22, who attended Hockley Hall parties, invited all the residents to a coming-out party for her sister Ruth at the Eugene Meyer mansion on Washington's Crescent Place. There Graham met Kay, a $25-a-week editorial assistant on her father's paper. A University of Chicago graduate (and ex-student of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), she was as keen a New Deal supporter as Graham himself. After...
...present. He expects to gross $11 million this year, has already pocketed large profits from the $50 million worth of Dutch goods that he has sold to U.S. armed forces. "No kidding," says he, "the first million is the hardest." After his fast exit from Germany he bought a mansion at Waterloo, Belgium, lives there with his wife and three children. To upgrade his social position, he joined Belgium's Royal Jockey Club, built up a stable of 35 thoroughbreds. From the owners' enclosure at Longchamps he has elbowed his way into the international set of Prince...
Some of the younger Nationalists and their wives thought the occasion called for a gesture of thanks to their leader. They organized a victory march on Groote Schuur (Great Barn), the vast Dutch Colonial pile, once the mansion of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes, that is now the Cape Town residence of the Prime Minister. Around 9 of the summer's evening, a caravan of 130 cars, filled with 156 Nationalist parliamentarians and wives, drove slowly up to the great house whose grounds overlook two oceans. "We have come to sing," announced a spokesman. Mrs. Strydom invited the crowd inside...
...scientist is Dr. Erich Varnoff. Exiled by a "foreign power," Varnoff decides to rule the world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...
...year Luckman got as president of Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira and Luckman to design the Berlin Hilton hotel), usually has at least one hour's work behind him when he sets out for the firm's Sunset Boulevard offices. Outwardly, Chuck Luckman has changed little since he washed Lever...