Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with pledges in his pocket of U.S. financial aid for earthquake damage repair and for more Point Four help, President Plaza moved to New York to receive a ticker-tape welcome, meet such business leaders as the Grace Line's J. Peter Grace Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, and visit the hotel where he was born 45 years ago, when his father was minister to Washington. From his birthplace, he will fly to California to visit his old university campus at Berkeley, then head southward for a brief state visit in Mexico City on his way home...
...lovesick Willie, Kenneth Nelson has his Tarkingtonian moments, captures some of the fearful gentility and capering solemnity of one whose heart may or may not be breaking, but whose voice unquestionably is. Harrison Muller is a show-stopper as the superior Yaleman who breezes in for a visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching...
Since his first postwar show in 1949, Pagliacci's work has climbed steadily on the bestseller lists. His paintings, marked by skilled draftsmanship and dramatic coloring, have had a particular vogue with U.S. collectors, among them Nelson Rockefeller and Cinemactor Clifton Webb. Last week Pagliacci, who knows a good thing when he sees it, was hard at work burning up two more Roman churches with pigment and canvas...
...Chicago at the same time as the Disciples of Christ (membership: 1,716,000). Business meetings of the two conventions will be separate, but some spiritual and social activities will be carried out jointly. "I do not foresee any immediate merger," said the Baptists' secretary, Dr. Reuben E. Nelson of New York, "but the Baptists and Disciples are more alike than any two other Protestant groups ... We are going to get to know each other better. You can't tell what better acquaintanceship will bring...
...home front, he pushed a pet project for renaming the stars. Tired of such foreign nonsense as Betelgeuse (Armpit of the Central One), Herbert proposed that the heavens be dotted with Nelson, Drake, Cook...