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Word: nye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This, anyway, is Nye Richardson Gifford, 63, chief of the Lymington Police and a certain mixture of Philip Marlowe and Christ who has had to wait to shoulder his greatest human burden and solve his biggest crime until now, the beginning of this novel. Until a sunny August afternoon in 1972 and the discovery, on a back road in Lymington, of the body of a youngish woman, her identity blasted past police identification by four .38 caliber slugs to the face...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Philip Marlowe and Jesus Christ on Cape Cod | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...greatest thing New Orleans has to offer is a step into the past, not a cheesy replica of it," complained TV talk Master Dick Cavett. Accompanied by his wife, Mississippi-born Actress Carrie Nye, Cavett had come to New Orleans for a visit and found that some favorite landmarks were missing. "People who live here all the time maybe don't notice it, but it's heartbreaking," said Cavett after surveying the rubble of the historic St. Charles Hotel and the debris of the French Market renovation. "Don't they understand they're destroying an international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 2, 1975 | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War 2 is his third book on this period. In America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-41. Cole detailed the history of the largest isolationist organization of that time, the America First Committee. Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations is a study of the career of one of Congress's most ardent isolationists. In Lindbergh, Cole documents the history of the aviator's involvement with anti-interventionists politics and presents a complete picture of Lindbergh's foreign policy views. The book is clearly written and makes...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: 'Lucky Lindy' | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

...business administration are the most popular specialties. Indeed, it is hard to find a pro football team without at least one player scholar or administrator. Nick Buoniconti, the Miami Dolphins linebacker, runs a law practice (Garber & Buoniconti), as does inactive Packer Center Ken Bowman. Blaine Nye, who plays guard for the Dallas Cowboys, has a University of Washington M.A. in physics and a Stanford master's in business administration that he plans to apply to a career in corporate banking or business marketing. In hockey, a game not noted for the intellect of its players, Montreal Canadien Goalie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Double Life of Egghead Jocks | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Little Boy Blue | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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