Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson Parker, 3, of Orange, N.J., sent to play in the basement of his apartment building because the weather was bad outside, strangled to death in a coin-operated washing machine...
...other retiring veterans, Rodney and Nelson, wore scars from the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. In 1941 the Rodney had come in close under the Germans' guns to be in at the kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without...
...Royal Navymen, the 20-year-old Nelson and Rodney were something special. They were unlike all other battleships; all their big guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British battleship would never turn tail. Now that they were obsolete, economy dictated the ships' retirement. The five veterans, said Viscount Hall, "would be of very little value in any future...
...first President of the paper was Mr. Francis Child Faulkner '74. The other editors on the original board, all members of the class of 1874, were Messrs. Eugene Nelson Aston, Henry Alden Clark, Samuel Belcher Clarke, Thomas Corlies, George Erwin Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Houry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson. Of these first editors, only four Messrs. Clark, Clarke, Merwin, and Sampson are alive today...
...Nelson's day, Christie's pocketed 7½% of the purchase price, a standard fee recently upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross...