Word: percivall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The admiral was proud of his week, but tired. In three days in Spain, Forrest Sherman had set in motion what he had long urged: a deal for the use of Spain's bases in the defense of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he was off on a rapid swing...
Percival F. Brundage '14, New York accountant, will become Dickinson Leoturor in Accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration on April 23. He will deliver the annual lectures on April 23 and 24 on developments and trends in accounting.
One night in Taejon, Jack Percival, a peppery, tough Australian reporter, bedded down among his fellow reporters on the floor of an old house. Shortly after, he dashed out into the living room. "There's a woman in there," he gasped. "There was one fellow kept rolling over in...
Percival had unwittingly gone to bed between the only women correspondents then in Korea, the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Collier's Charlotte Knight, who were getting the same treatment as the men.
The refugee author and his family will be accompanied by Shute's faithful private secretary, the Shute gardener and handyman, and his four-seater Percival-Proctor monoplane ("To fly your own plane is the ideal way for an author to travel"). Says Shute: "I want my two daughters to...