Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running one of the tables in an Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson...
...Compton Cup, now in the halls of Nassau, is the prize Harvard, Princeton, M.I.T., and Rutgers will be seeking in the 18th renewal of a regatta dating from 1933. The Cup, given by Dr. Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., has been won six times by Princeton, eleven by Harvard...
...published independently t be sure, but usually goes far into the red and needs a yearly subsidy from the university to remain solvent. Princeton, meanwhile, has a complicated system whereby a varying portion of the alumnus's class contribution buys his subscription to the Alumni Weekly, and consequently all Nassau alumni are compulsory subscribers to the publication...
Many Dutch editors, reflecting on the power of the House of Orange-Nassau, signed the agreement for fear that their government sources would dry up if they failed to do so. Recently, for example, one foreign correspondent was warned that his pipelines would be plugged if he kept on mentioning the Queen in his stories. Another, recommended for a government citation, had the honor rescinded when it was learned he had written an article about Juliana for a U.S. magazine...
...summed up the immediate reaction of many to the proposed College subdivision when he noted Harvard was carrying out Princeton's idea with Yale's money. Those at the dinner nodded sympathetically remembering that Woodrow Wilson 25 years earlier had tried to institute a democratic division at Nassau, but had been unable to defeat the alumni-backed club system. President Lowell, however, jumped to his feet to correct the speaker's remark. Princeton was not involved at all. "It was a bolt out of the Blue," the dark-haired, mustached president declared...