Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift of $90,000 from Kidder, Peabody & Co. was made in memory of their late partner, Edwin Sibley Webster, Jr. An additional $195,000 has been given anonymously, in two gifts, for the athletic endowment. These gifts have been added to the previously existing sum of $700,000. The Program is seeking to add $2,000,000 to the H.A.A. endowment...
With Willkie in Colorado, young Jim Hagerty first took up golf (he has a sure touch on the greens, but his body sway on the tee leads to flubs, which Frequent Partner Dwight Eisenhower calls "Hagerty Drives"). Hagerty was genuinely fond of Willkie. But his memories of the mismanaged Willkie train make White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved...
Behind the art extravaganza is crew-cut Lee Nordness, 33, a partner in a small Manhattan gallery called The Little Studio. Nordness first conceived of his grandiose plan last summer when a French art dealer gibed at him, "You Americans make your beautiful refrigerators and automobiles, and leave art to us." Then and there Nordness made up his mind that "what we need is a big, public show of contemporary American art, not only for the U.S. but for the world...
This sally drew a reply from brother John, who is a partner in the Foot family solicitors' firm in Plymouth. Tartly, John accused Sir Hugh of advertising "his intellectual accomplishments-such as they are." Sir Hugh's letter, John went on, disclosed "a monumental arrogance which leads him to assume that we, his brothers, have nothing better to do than discuss him and his affairs with newspapermen...
...young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something like that...