Word: shipley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes past and present indiscriminately, telling now of her efforts to avoid the old ladies' home to which her son wishes to send her, now of the life she led as a girl and a young bride at a bleak crossroads town on the Canadian prairie...
...When Curtis came to a couple of hours later, he said he saw Defendant Samuel Shipley III, of Philadelphia, on the beach "taking his date home." The prosecutor asked what Shipley was doing. "Sam was crawling across the sand," said Curtis, "and he was being called Lawrence of Arabia...
...definition, young-and possibly immature. Yet it was a hard political fact that only a week before, Republican state chairmen, mostly veterans in the party wars, had convened in Denver-and they too had seemed strong for Goldwater. Said the District of Columbia's Carl L. Shipley: "The depths of this Goldwater feeling is absolutely fantastic. The talk from all sides in Denver is driving nails in Rockefeller's political coffin." Said Maryland's David Scull: "A lot of us have reservations about his tendency to shoot from the hip; it makes us nervous when we think...
...Rockefeller's availability for the presidential nomination." A top Washington Republican, long favorable to Rocky's candidacy, said: "It will finish him as far as 1964 is concerned. Remarriage itself wouldn't be so bad-but my God, she's got all those children." Carl Shipley, G.O.P. National Committeeman for the District of Columbia, thought it would be political suicide for Rocky to remarry. "No one is pleased about the impending marriage," he said. "It's got everyone shook up." Mrs. Mary Jackson, Republican National Committeewoman for Rhode Island, a heavily Catholic state, said: "Remarriage...
Happy went to the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., graduated in 1944, earning a record of average scholarship and her nickname ("because she just made everybody happy," recalls a classmate). In December 1948, she married Dr. "Robin" Murphy in a big society wedding in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Happy "pulchritudinous," "superbly lovely" and noted that she wore a bridal gown "brought from Belgium by her great-great-grandmother and worn by every bride in the family since then...