Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room of his failing Penn-Texas Corp.. directors bounced Silberstein from his two top jobs and turned them over to a pair of "neutral" directors who swing the power balance on the board. Although Silberstein held on to the presidency, his chairmanship of the executive committee went to Milton C. Weisman, 62, law partner of New York City's Congressman Emanuel Celler, and his board chairmanship fell to Banker Aaron L. Jacoby...
...personal valet, Lorenzo Chestnut, by his side. In Chestnut's hands were the familiar Berle off-screen props: a soiled towel for mopping the star, a glass of water, a fistful of Dunhill's Larranaga cigars with big white billing on the cellophane: "SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR MILTON BERLE." Said Lorenzo: "I keep one lit for him when he comes off." As Berle waited glumly for his cue, he scowled at a monitor and frazzled the seven-in. Larranaga. "Shush, baby, shush," he said to no one in particular. On cue, he dashed on-camera, tossing his cigar into...
Eleven years ago in the predawn of TV, Milton Berle mused: "I'm not the manufactured Broadway comedian any more. I'm going back, back to my real talent. I began as a dramatic actor, you know." Instead, for eight razzle-dazzle years in which they both became U.S. living-room fixtures, TV made him a prisoner of comedy. Last week, after two years of well-paid retirement as a television personality,* Berle, 49, finally went back to his "real talent...
...Bicker procedure are obviously reared. It's the oldest truth in creation that there is evil in the universe and it is as a realistic schooling in the world's folly and wickedness that Bicker is usually defended. In letting her students, after months of reading Plato and Kant, Milton and Thoreau, pass complacently through the two weeks of Bicker, Princeton may well be defeating her own highest efforts at cultivating an operative system of values, and inducing in her sons the refined sort of ethical blindness which tactfully refrains from seriously applying standards of what is right in adjusting...
...There were seven Eisenhower brothers, sons of David (1863-1942) and Ida (1862-1946) Eisenhower: Arthur (1886-1958); Edgar, now 69; Dwight, 67; Roy (1892-1942); Paul (1894-95); Earl, 60; and Milton...