Word: scepter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than Duke, but all of them fight booze, smoke tea, use girls, snag purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object of his obsession but discovers that a knife is also able to kill a man. At the fade, two white policemen begin to beat...
...likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file them away in his great big desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype...
...workers in the factory, or when labor organizers were methodically kneed, blackjacked and even shot by Bennett-paid Detroit gangsters. Old Henry stood above and away from it all, refusing to believe that such abuses existed. In this vacuum of leadership, corporate cliques vied for Ford's erratic scepter. "The sinister Bennett" was pitted against the "dynamically ruthless" production chief Charles Sorensen; the "public-spirited...
Earlier in the day Tomlimson presented a "banner of confidence" to representative of Gov. Endicott Peabody '42 and Boston Mayor John F. Collins. The banner is of silk, 15 inches square, with designs of the "scepter of righteousness," the "star of hope," and the "crown of victory" in purple on a field of broad bands of red, white, and blue...