Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of Gossipist Leonard Lyons). Her back to the filing cabinets full of background material (which she never uses), she whacks away against a 5:30 deadline. Deadline is sometimes missed in the agony of indecision. Last week Sylvia was working ahead in preparation for a planned vacation with Sumner. But even vacations are no particular rest. On a brief winter idyl in the Bahamas, sunning herself near a Detroit executive who did not recognize her, Sylvia picked up a chance remark about an impending Ford stock sale that made front pages all over...
Success has only accelerated the drive of a driven woman to stay where fate-with a considerable assist from Sylvia Porter-has landed her. In 1944, with some help from her second husband, Sumner Collins, whom she had married the year before, she started a weekly newsletter on Government bonds. Called Reporting on Governments, it circulates (at $60 a year) to a blue-chip clientele of 2,500 bankers, economists and securities dealers, who consider it must reading. In recent years she has had effective assistance in this from Joseph Slevin, who also writes finance from Washington...
Hurricane Hazel leveled most of the coconut palms in 1955. Bostonian Sumner Smith, who got title to the Swans by default in 1950 after his partners in the trading company dropped out. says: "Maybe, some day, somebody will think of something to do with them." Though lined with lovely beaches, the islands are far off the tourist track and have almost no fresh water. In their spare time, the recent U.S. explorers collected butterflies, iguanas and a variety of legless lizards. They found no swans, however; the islands take their name from an English pirate, and swans are as hard...
...legislature's reaction to Brown's plea was icy. Speaking the mood of hostile lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Bruce F. Sumner charged that Democrat Brown had "ducked his responsibility," put the legislature "in the unfair position of being a court of last resort for Chessman." Brown's bill, which would mean life imprisonment for Chessman and 21 others condemned (including one woman), was sent to the senate judiciary committee. Said Chairman Edwin J. Regan, a Democrat, who scheduled a hearing this week: "I would think that if the bill were not reported out by the committee, that would...