Word: russel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Business faculty for more than 20 years, Lombard will succeed Russel H. Hassler, who is resigning to become an officer and director of the Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd., in Honolulu...
From Edna Ferber to Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, his list of clients reads like the world's best-kept book of unlisted phone numbers. "I call myself a literary agent," says Lazar, "simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents." He also handles composers (Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers), choreographers, etc. For Rodgers, he recently sold The Sound of Music to 20th Century-Fox for $1,250,000, and for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe he peddled Camelot to Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal...
...future seemed absurd. His lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged...
...among other aging celebrators, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Russel Crouse were there, Writer-Feminist Jane Grant (first wife of The New Yorker's Harold Ross), Actress Margalo Gillmore, Composer Deems Taylor, and Author Margaret Case Harriman, who helped preserve the nights and noons of the Round Table with her book, The Vicious Circle. But the contracted circle no longer showed any viciousness, only a kind of vintage grace along with mild confessions and geriatric observations. "There must be a gang such as ours somewhere today," said Jane Grant. "But, of course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers...
Upon hearing of Mme. Ivinskaya's imprisonment, Nobel-prize winner Bertrand Russel sent a private note to Premier Khrushchev, asking whether she had, in fact, been jailed. Subsequently, a letter-writing campaign by famous authors of the Western world was started in behalf of the woman and her daughter. Among those who have sent letters thus far are Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac...