Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell, Cowart and Griggs had little cause for celebration. All have lived miserably since their return. Bell now dwells in a small house trailer with his wife and four children near Olympia, Wash., earns $1.70 an hour in a Christmas tree nursery. Cowart was last reported working as a dishwasher in Alabama after being fired from jobs in a Cleveland restaurant and as a magazine salesman and truck driver in Texas and Oklahoma when employers learned of his past. Griggs, after getting a sociology degree from Texas' Stephen F. Austin State College and trying to peddle a book...
...haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening...
...continue these policies, Resor chose as his successor Norman H. Strouse, 53. Strouse, born in Olympia, Wash., worked for a time in the advertising department of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, joined Thompson's San Francisco office as a space buyer in 1929. After World War II service on General MacArthur's staff in the Pacific, he was assigned as Thompson's account executive to Ford in Detroit. He handled the job so well that he was made a vice president in 1947. In 1955 he was chosen over 84 other vice presidents as president of J. Walter...