Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Life: Youngest of six children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an admirer of Thomas Mann. Says he of cocktail parties: "When I have to go to any of them. I tell my chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator...
Into the U.S. Senate's buff-and-marble caucus room one day last week marched the New York Central Railroad's pink-and-silver Robert R. Young. Railroader Young was there to answer the questions of a Senate Banking subcommittee investigating the recent rash of proxy battles. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Wall Street Alumnus Herbert H. Lehman, wanted Bob Young to explain just how he had managed to win control of the $2 billion New York Central last year, and especially how he made his big deal whereby Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson cast...
...class who own the coastal haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre thereupon founded a movement called Apra (from the Spanish initials of Popular Revolutionary Alliance of America...
...other Presidents (John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time to his other job-chaplain of the U.S. Senate...
Thirteen hundred spirited reunioners descended on the College by 11 p.m. last night to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their graduation by the traditional five days of revelry, touring, and symposia. With 200 classmates and family members due to arrive today, the silver anniversary of the Class of 1930 promises to be the most instructive, exciting, and entertaining reunion in the academic--or party-giving world...