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...Ralph Arnold Tudor, 50, California engineer, to be Under Secretary. A West Point graduate, Tudor left the Army in 1929 for a career in civil engineering, got to be head of his own San Francisco firm (specialties: bridges, roads...
...gentlemen in red-breasted tunics who carry halberds up and down the battlements of the Tower of London are, as every U.S. tourist knows well, Yeomen Warders. At the drop of one of their black band box hats, they will explain at length that England's first Tudor king, Henry VII, recruited them in 1485 to serve as his personal bodyguard, and that they earned their proud name in 1669 when the Grand Duke of Tuscany wrote: "They are great eaters of beef . . . They might be called beefeaters." By custom, each must have distinguished himself in service with...
...York World-Telegram reporter, assigned to investigate the working conditions of Remington Rand's new $100,000-a-year Board Chairman Douglas Mac-Arthur, finally found the place, a "Tudor castle" on a 30-acre estate near Rowayton, Conn. He found the general comfortably settled in an Elizabethan-type 25-by-40-foot office. Asked how he liked his new job, the Old Soldier answered: "I'm doing fine, sir; I like it fine." Surprised at the presence of a reporter, President Rand asked if he had an appointment. "No," said the general, "he just crashed the gate...
...throw ?250,000 (then about $1,000,000) into the Mediterranean Sea one day in 1940. A few moments later, the R.A.F. payroll plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Sicily, and Leeming was made prisoner along with the late Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd...
Dustin M. Burke '52, captain of last season's hockey team has received the Tudor award as Most Valuable Player, and William Timpson '52 the Angler award as Most Improved Player on the 1951-52 hockey squad, it was announced last night...