Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rolling down the brand-new Kansas Turnpike that will be officially opened this week. Wyoming's unwary Republican Governor Milward L. Simpson forgot that the fancy road comes to a dead end at the Oklahoma state line. His car hurtled off the concrete into an Oklahoma wheat field. The only one of five riders to be hurt was the governor's wife Lorna, who had forgotten to fasten her safety belt, but escaped with slight cuts and bruises...
...Chicago-born Goetze joined Western Electric in 1917 as a draftsman, took night courses in electrical engineering. By 1952 he moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue: $169,027,558). A certified public accountant and the former Texas State Auditor, Carpenter helped organize Texas Eastern in 1947 by purchasing the Big and Little Inch pipelines...
Between marriages she felt forlorn. She wrote an essay on hats for a fashion competition (the industry, she observes with justifiable satisfaction, lost a servant but gained a customer) and once thought of selling tubular steel. Instead, in 1928, she married Ernest Simpson, a sometime member of the Coldstream Guards. The Simpsons had a modest but assured London social position, and at Melton Mowbray (in the hunting country, where the Prince of Wales was to establish his talent for falling off horses) Mrs. Simpson fatally met the Prince...
...gauzy, chatty narrative tells of the months during which Mrs. Simpson became the great and good friend of the Prince of Wales, the reader's heart will go out to Mr. Simpson. From the moment of Wallis' fateful speech to the Prince at the Simpsons' flat in Bryanston Court-"Sir, would you care to take pot-luck with us?"-Mr. Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could...
...despite the determinedly sentimental tone ("any woman who has been loved as I have been loved"), a touch of dignity, be it of Windsor or of Baltimore, still shines through. But many a reader may linger longest over the remarkably gentle, paternal letters written to Wallis by Ernest Simpson after the King's abdication. They contain a question Author Windsor must sometimes ask herself: "And would your life have ever been the same if you had broken...