Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drops of Blood. Anguish at Christie's has not always been confined to those who have been forced to sell. When Lord Nelson heard that a portrait of Lady Hamilton was to go on the block, he wrote a desperate note to his Emma: "But you are at auction. Good God! My blood boils." He succeeded in buying the picture (for ?300) before the auction day, and recorded happily that "I should have bought it . . . if it had cost me 300 drops of blood...
Fadeout. After 2½ years as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, Donald M. Nelson, ex-War Production Board chief, had had enough. He resigned his $50,000-a-year (plus $25,000 expenses) job to devote himself to "other business interests...
Kirkland--If, Rauschenbush; rf, Lehrman; c, Bixby; lg, Glyun; rg, Thompson. Winthrop--If, Thalhofer; rf, Montgomery; c, Nelson: lg, Powell: rg, Blinken...
Atlanta's Davison-Paxon store sent its customers dollar bills and asked that they be awarded to courteous clerks. In Seattle, Frederick & Nelson kept a company spy prowling the aisles. His job: giving orchids to polite salesgirls. The help, apparently a little stunned by such thoughtful practices, was positively charming...
...room main house is usually filled with guests (samples: Lord & Lady Halifax, Standard Oil's Eugene Holman, Nelson Rockefeller, Mrs. Will Rogers) or with business visitors. A steady stream of agronomists, geneticists, and breeders from all over the world come to see at first hand (and are fed and boarded with traditional Texan hospitality) the work of Master Cattleman and Breeder Kleberg...