Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snob. In Sherman Oaks, Calif., when Robert Eschback was arrested on suspicion of pulling a stickup at a supermarket, he said he was never mixed up in that sort of thing: "I'm strictly a burglar...
...minute Eisenhower nap and lunch (tomato soup, cheese souffle, cottage pudding with lemon sauce). The first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone and Science Adviser James Killian to attend next morning. Between conferences and dinner sessions, Ike and Macmillan drove together along winding roads and across mountain freshets through the Catoctin forests...
Both Barbara Ward and her British husband, Commander Sir Robert G. A. Jackson, chairman of the Development Commission, Government of Ghana, "are interested in almost the same things," especially the developments of "young countries." Lady Jackson's work, which springs from "inner conviction," is more theoretical than her husband's; he is more interested in administrative problems, having had extensive experience in different countries throughout Asia and Africa...
...Rugby Club recently received a special trophy from Robert W. Dobbins, secretary of the M.I.T. club, in recognition of last Saturday's victory over the Engineers...
...arena at the Charles Playhouse is set by Robert G. Skinner with a few solid, bare beams, evocative of Puritan living conditions and symbolic of the strong, harsh, undecorated, uneuphemistic outlook of the Puritan soul. To some degree this is Mr. Miller's outlook too, and according to it he has made a sturdy play, admirable in many aspects and intermittently powerful...