Word: nippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judicial robes for a wrap-around of grandchildren, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Campbell Clark, 59, took his uneasy ease in a swimming pool in Dallas, where he was vacationing. Two of the kids, Tom, 5, and Ronda. 7, are children of William Ram sey Clark; the other nipper, eye-gouging Gail, 4, is the daughter of Justice Clark's daughter Mildred ("Mimi") Gronlund...
...thesis notes were burning a hole in Miles' portfolio. After a year at the London School of economics, during which he acquired a pint-sized car he calls "the little Nipper." Miles came to roost at the Littauer School. In the last two years at the University, his thesis has grown, he says, to volumes of research and two pages of final product...
...Captive. Roger decided on action. He called his two beagles, Midge and Queen, and his black & tan mongrel, Nipper, and headed for a hollow beech tree in the woods a mile and a half away. Stationing his dogs near a hole at the base of the trunk in case he scared out any raccoons, he went up the 40-ft. bole like a monkey...
...dogs were licking his feet again. But finally, Nipper, the biggest, trotted home. Nobody paid him any attention; Roger's father, scores of neighbors and two state troopers were scouring the countryside for the lost boy. But the next morning Roger's brother Rodney followed the dog. Slowly, and with numberless side expeditions, snuffmgs and flea scratchings, Nipper led the way to the tree with the feet sticking...
...handling its oil leases be improved, got the board to hire Dallas' famed geologist E. De Golyer (TIME, March 24) to survey the railroad's oil lands, and brought in Standard Oil Co. of California's former assistant vice president LeRoy Hines as a new Nipper officer in charge of oil. When Nipper's stockholders hold their annual meeting next fortnight, Simon is expected to shoot off more fireworks. And it looked as if Wall Street would be hearing a lot more about both Northern Pacific and Norton Simon...