Word: stuart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haldeman tries to minimize his own role in the Nixon committee's intelligence-gathering plans. He contends that he did want the committee's deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder, to develop an intelligence capability but only to make "simple recordings of public speeches" by Democratic candidates so that inconsistencies could be attacked. He admits prodding Magruder to get going on it and says that Nixon, in turn, had been nudging...
...Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this maxim, finding it distasteful, perhaps, but true. Burney lends an air of realism to his character; his Bonny is like thousands of backstreets city kids aware of the odds against them and unable to score anything more than marginal victories against the system...
...Winter Antiques Show opened at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, crowds bundled against the winter chill lined up to see the dazzling array of wares laid out by 67 American dealers. Among the treasures were English Chippendale chairs, Queen Anne silver, Shaker cabinets and a handsome pair of Gilbert Stuart portraits. A few blocks away an enthusiastic crowd milled through the showrooms of Sotheby Parke Bernet to preview a 1,400-lot collection of Americana that went on the block last week...
Played with appropriate panache by Stuart Wilson, he is a handsome figure of dash and romance, the highest flier of a high-living crowd. "I feel like a starving man when someone gives him food," is the way Anna describes her feelings to ward...
...storm only had minor effects on exam-takers. Stuart R. Patterson '79 said yesterday, "I wanted to get an extra pen for my exam at the Coop, but it had closed by the time I got there...