Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Lundy's 1941 Nash sedan was found on a highway a mile up the canyon. On the front seat was his briefcase. In it were $350 in cash and a note: "If and when I die, please ship my body to Roscoe, Ill. . . . Thank you." Signed: Fred Lundy. At week's end police were still looking for Fred...
...such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...
...Episcopal St. Paul's School, which is strong on hockey and respectability, has been headed by a churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare...
Like many a man who drives a ruthless bargain, M. Verdoux has his good side. He exhibits an exquisite gentleness toward children, the sick and the maimed, and even the humblest animals. He spares one prospective victim (a new Chaplin protege named Marilyn Nash), when he learns that she is the widow of a disabled war veteran and shares his burning pity for the helpless. He fails to close his deals with certain other clients too. He makes several brilliantly funny attempts on the life of rambunctious Martha Raye, but she was born lucky and is plainly indestructible. He nibbles...
David Knight '50 has been named captain for next season, replacing Gerstley. James Beverly '47 will serve as manager. Other lettermen on the squad are Neal Small '45, Royal A. Elfast '50, and Nathaniel C. Nash...