Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Saturday nights, Gauguin's Queen of the Areois swings away from the wall on a hinge, a concealed projector lights up, a screen drops from the ceiling, and the group watches a new movie. Also a photographer of considerable skill, Paley displays his albums to guests at home. In the kind of company he usually keeps, he is hardly picture-dropping, but a casual flip of the pages turns up some remarkable names and moments: Anthony Eden, thin as wire, stretched out in a bathing suit at Cap d'Antibes during a sojourn with the Paleys...
...blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year-old Pet, which his grandfather founded. Both Pet's evaporated-milk sales and its aging management were drying up; stepping up to president in 1959, Gamble moved up younger men, diversified into everything from walnuts to frozen waffles. Last week, in his first...
WHILE he was chairman of Wall Street's powerful First Boston Corp., lanky George D. Woods was an orthodox banker by day and a gambler in his off hours. Woods did his gambling as a Broadway angel, bankrolled a few flops but also a list of such long-runs as Sailor, Beware! and Dead End. As World Bank president, Woods, 62, is now serving as angel for more universal enterprises. Under Eugene Black, the bank prospered by making hard loans for productive public works. When he succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone...
...known as "The Clown Prince" for his practical jokes, scorned the shoulder harness 80% of stock-car racing drivers wear, saying "when my time comes, no piece of rag's gonna save me"; of head and chest injuries inflicted when his 1964 Mercury crashed into a retaining wall during a race; at Riverside, Calif...
...silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found him back at a spare office in the Pentagon, sitting in a rigid position, staring at the bare wall opposite. When the worried aide tried to talk to him, Forrestal said only: "You are a loyal fellow." When Forrestal went home, he seemed bewildered by the fact that he no longer had an official limousine. Alarmed at his condition, friends bundled him off for a Florida vacation, but Forrestal...