Word: reided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cursed with bisexual charm. In the Satyricon, he would have been one of the boys in Fellini's band. Still, if one cannot have pre-Christian Rome, contemporary London will do. Sunning himself in a graveyard one afternoon, Sloane is taken in-in every sense-by Kath (Beryl Reid). She is a bloated harpy who will never need silicone or estrogen. Enter two gentlemen who provide complications and multiply laughter. Kath's father Dadda (Alan Webb) is a senescent buzzard; her brother Ed (Harry Andrews) is a lantern-jawed caricature of muscle-bound Christianity...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...
...great-grandfather, Captain Samuel Chester Reid, a naval hero who had distinguished himself in the War of 1812, was asked by Representative Peter H. Wendover of New York to suggest a plan for the flag that would meet with the approval of Congress. Captain Reid's simple suggestion to hold the stripes to 13 commemorating the original states, and have a star for each state, was enacted into law on April...
...first flag, with 20 stars and 13 stripes, was made by Mrs. Reid in her home on Cherry Street in New York City. It was flown from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1818, the date the flag law became effective...
...June primaries, the students' scorecard showed only one clear victory, that of Ron Dellums, a radical black congressional candidate from Berkeley. However, more than 300 students helped in the Westchester County, N.Y., campaign of Ogden Reid, an antiwar Republican, and his staff called their aid "crucial" in the narrow victory he won for renomination...