Word: rand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard it was Art Conlon of the NROTC and Dan O'Callaghan of the V-12 who posted the victories over McNeely and Parker of the visitors, but George Plimpton, John Knowles, and Murray Levin did not fare so well, going down in defeat before Knox, Kingsly, and Rand of the New Haven team...
...Sally Rand, titillating terpsichorean, whose art consists of publicly manipulating two outsized feather fans, wriggled out of a $150,747 damage suit. She said she had a right to "some privacy," hence a right to bite and scratch two would-be photographers who had clicked a shutter at a slow-moving fan. A California court agreed...
...indictments, based mainly on Truman Committee findings, charged that the Norden company, ordered by the Navy Department to turn over bombsight plans to Remington Rand Inc., which was to build 8,500 "football units" (the main computing part), had blocked Remington Rand production by 1) withholding engineering advice; 2) furnishing incomplete and inaccurate specifications; 3) rejecting Remington Rand units in New York...
...Dedham, Mass., eight relatives and an ex-employe of the late millionaire attorney, Woodbury Rand, prepared to contest his will. They were indignant at discovering that he had canceled $20,000 in bequests because of their "contemptuous attitude" towards his male tiger cat, Buster (TIME, Aug. 21). Rand left Buster $40,000, and added in his will: "Any personal property of mine which would add to his comfort, such as my radio, sweaters, three electric fans . . . shall be at his disposal...
Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...