Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew the interview was concluded and prepared to leave. "You know," he said as I collected my notes, "I'm writing a book; it'll be the story of my life. I'm writing it for Thomas Nelson and Sons." He chuckled to himself. "They're the publishers of the Revised Edition of the Bible." His gaze fixed on the emptiness outside his hotel window. Then he turned toward me. "I guess it's sort of fitting that we 'revisionists' should come together...
...management. All these stories are reported in BUSINESS, and for what specifically aggravated the banker, see Wanted: Price Cuts. GEORGE WASHINGTON once slept in Barbados, and Captain Bligh sailed to St. Vincent. Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis, and the pirate Morgan was lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Lord Nelson served at Antigua. Now, shaking off the fascinations of the past, the scenic British islands are banding together in a federation, the newest nation-neighbor of the U.S. For the story and color photographs, see HEMISPHERE, First Election...
...first public one-man show, Painter Winston Churchill last week scored a smash hit. On the day the show opened in Kansas City, Mo., 5,427 people* crowded into the Nelson Gallery of Art, setting a new one-day record. By the time the Kansas City showing closes this week, some 20,000 will have seen Sir Winston's impressionist-style canvases, ranging from a wartime scene of Flanders' "Plug Street" (Ploegsteert, Belgium, as translated by World War I Tommies), painted in 1916, down to last year's landscape of the French Riviera seen from Villa...
...booked the show were delighted that they had a hold on a gallery-packing attraction, only now and then seemed to be on the defensive. "We are representing another side of one of the greatest personalities of our time," said Laurence Sickman, director of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. "Frankly, we welcomed the opportunity." Detroit Institute of Arts Director Edgar P. Richardson was equally pleased, said, "Our aim is to give the people a chance to observe the pageant of arts in our time, and certainly this is part of that pageant...
...tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats away, grinned broadly. Nelson Rockefeller, second of the five sons...