Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become emulsified in cafe society's bottle. In Washington, the society of the cave-dwellers was sacrificed on the time clock of a U.S. Government that became too busy for measured elegance. But in Chicago, high society has survived almost intact from the days when Mrs. Potter Palmer led the elite around by her pearl rope necklace. Even in Chicago something has been lacking. Not in years-not, in fact, since the Palmer days of the '905-has Chicago had an acknowledged queen of society...
...chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only $39.97 a month after 48 years of service. Professor Burton O. Longyear, who founded the department of forestry, last year spent the last of his life's savings ($5,000) on his wife's doctor's bills; now, at 85, he has nothing...
...with an oddly shaped left ear step off a bus in Orange (pop. 21,174), Texas. Seigenthaler was instantly discouraged: the man limped badly. But the reporter followed his quarry through a quiet neighborhood to a white, comfortably unkempt frame house. The thin, limping man was Thomas D. Palmer, a television salesman. His wife, a motherly looking woman, worked as a court reporter and often toiled at home after hours, typing legal documents. They had six children-two married daughters, a son in the Marine Corps, a crippled 14-year-old boy named Duncan, who walks with elbow crutches...
...talked to his aging mother on the telephone, and Betty McCuddy talked to her father, who had long since given her up as dead. Betty learned for the first time that her mother and only brother were dead. "After all these years," she cried, and bit her lip. The Palmer children were shocked and disturbed. Two days after the excitement began, daughter Elizabeth Ann bore her first baby. The child was dead. Reporters besieged the green-roofed house. After their 22 years, middle-aged Tom and middle-aged Betty were back again in the world they had abandoned...
...others: Chicago's 3,000-room Conrad Hilton, Manhattan's 2,000-room Waldorf-Astoria, Chicago's 2,268-room Palmer House...