Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University). Could Bridges have lunch with Rockefeller on Tuesday? Sorry, but Bridges already had a luncheon date. Would Bridges meet Rocky Tuesday afternoon? Sorry, but Bridges was off to New Hampshire to keep a speaking engagement. Would Bridges like to fly to New Hampshire in the Rockefeller Bros, private plane? Thanks very much, but Bridges had already made his travel arrangements. Well, could Rocky come up to Bridges' office early in the day? Yes, of course, said Styles Bridges...
...come was Steven's mother, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, who embraced Anne-Marie and described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None...
...Paris by swift truck and chartered plane go 65,000 copies daily-80,000 when the tourists swarm. In the last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
...Francisco's Willie Lee McCovey, 21, a big, leggy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Negro first baseman, was so excited last month when he was called up from Phoenix that he stayed up all night to make sure he made his plane, never did get around to packing all his clothes. But at the plate for San Francisco, Willie is as cool as his bat is hot: in his first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place...
...heroes, President Eddie Rickenbacker, who almost lost control to a bump-Rickenbacker group. Rockefeller took 24,400 shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller put up $10,000 and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. became one of the top plane companies. When Rockefeller's holdings were worth $400,000, he sold out-as he usually does when...