Word: philadelphians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Club last week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash...
...Honorable Judge Juanita Kidd Stout [April 16] must be the greatest Philadelphian since Benjamin Franklin, doing more to advance her race than any person since Booker T. Washington. Everybody should have a mother like hers. ERNEST L. MCLAUGHLIN Union...
...captain Bryce Appleton, who won to last year, met his match this year as Terry Robinson (three) dazzled and the gallery with a complete of shots. Twice he baffled with the "Philadelphian," a tricky which the ball ends up going to the back wall. Robinson...
Edmund Norwood Bacon, 54, is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), thin (160 Ibs.) Philadelphian with sharp blue eyes and an intensely intellectual air that hardly seems the right equipment for moving and shaking a major city. But his total dedication to his special art and to his native town?plus an impressive gift of gab?is changing the look and feel of the town that was once the butt of comedians as the sleepiest city of them...
...underwriting house, which last year placed $2 billion worth of securities. He will be in charge of underwriting, serve as the youngest of the firm's three chief executives (others: Chairman Emil Pattberg Jr., 54, and Executive Committee Chairman Charles Glavin, 53). Tall and greying, Miller is a Philadelphian who went to Princeton. Was he a good student? "Negative," he grins. On the job he gets his greatest satisfaction from advising customers on how and when to raise expansion capital. As he has taken on more responsibility, he has had to give up his favorite diversions...