Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford tea party, the shy young king had met a shy young thing-blonde 21-year-old Daphne Parkinson of Lancashire, who was studying occupational therapy. The king wanted Daphne to share his lonely throne, become mistress of the ten-bedroom palace, every stone of which was brought from Scotland in sailing ships. Only snag: Daphne was 11,000 miles away and the next ship was not due for some time. But kings, even the king of the Cocos, can command when lesser men may not. In answer to an impatient royal radio signal, the is15,000-ton Ceylon-bound...
...looking for FBI-picked investigators to get it operating. As chairman of the nonpartisan group, the citizens picked Spruille Braden, harddriving, blunt-talking ex-Ambassador to Argentina and former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. Among the other members: Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, President Thomas I. Parkinson of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, President S. Sloan Colt of the Bankers Trust...
...STREET (490 pp.)-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Julian Messner...
...When the final chapter of Joy Street was dispatched," writes Frances Parkinson Keyes in the foreword to her new novel. "... I was too completely exhausted to feel the slightest elation ... I could not believe the ordeal was over; it had become one of those nightmares which apparently has no end, but goes...
...sooner had McCarthy popped off than Equitable's President Thomas I. Parkinson objected to the story. McCarthy representatives had been in to see him, said Parkinson, but "the stories . . . that readjustments have been made and additional loans granted are inaccurate." Metropolitan Life had nothing to say at all. Apologized McCarthy: "I thought we were all three in agreement. [The] $6,000,000 was my own estimate . . . I am sorry I offended Mr. Parkinson and certainly had no intention of doing so, but wanted my creditors to know that it would not be long before everyone had his money...