Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
...weeks after his resignation as Secretary of State, the gaunt, tired man in the presidential suite at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital struggled to hold his own. John Foster Dulles read fitfully at his books-Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, Churchill's memoirs, tire Bible. He listened to Bach on a stereophonic hi-fi that he had donated to the hospital last December. Sometimes he tried a crossword puzzle, listened to the news on TV. chatted about events with such faithful visitors as President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter, played, backgammon with his wife...
Then 27, Donald Campbell was not well prepared to make a fight of it ("I'd never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on water, and not much more on land"). But he learned. The U.S.'s Stanley Sayres duly broke Sir Malcolm's record in 1950. but by T955 Donald had it back in the family. In his jet-powered Bluebird II, he roared up and down the course on England's Lake Ullswater at an average speed of 202.32 m.p.h...
...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
...wanted to sell a large block this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public was $44.50 a share. Even conservative underwriters think there is a time for companies to split. Says Sumner Emerson, partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.: "A company that is going ahead fast and thinks it is going to have to sell more stock to finance its growth should probably split when its shares go to a high price...