Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over when President and Chief Executive J. Ed. Warren retires. Burns's background in the oil business is scanty, but he has other attributes to offer: he holds a doctorate in metallurgy from Harvard, worked his way from laborer to wire-division head at Republic Steel, became a partner in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton and an adviser to 30 blue-chip corporations before joining...
...electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed by his estrangement from Second Wife Nina Underwood, he garroted himself with an electric-shaver cord); in Princeton...
Died. Carl Lukas Norden, 85, inventor of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia...
Until Phyllis McGinley, no poet had ever successfully domesticated the muse, or, for that matter, had even tried to. Her singular achievement is that she has brought off the match without undue strain on either partner. The Hayden household in Larchmont rang to the rhythms of recited poetry. "We used to sit around the fire while she read it to us," Daughter Julie recalls. "It was mostly ballads-and Yeats and Chesterton too. She chose dramatic stuff because she believes that poetry should appeal to the emotions. Mother and Patsy would always cry at the sad parts...
...alumni procession will be led by the Chief Marshal, Douglas Mercer '40, partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray. The alumni, class by class, beginning with the oldest, march past the dignitaries assembled on the steps of Widener...