Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swimming coach William Brooks agreed with Yovicsin in stressing the social benefits of the training table. "This is the one time of day when the boys in different Houses get together outside of practice...
...During mid-years, there were people asking for bursar's cards in the first-level smoking rom," William B. Ernst, Jr., Assistant Librarian for Undergraduate Services, commented, "but the checking had to be done often, and it got annoying...
...deciding on a career in the arts. Herter was following in family footsteps. His German-born grandfather, the first Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became...
...also developed in testimony that McNamara and another former ICA official, William E. Kirby, accepted substantial favors in 1957 from a Hong Kong transportation firm that got a $275,000 contract to supply ferryboats for a transport system across the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos. Kirby later quit ICA and took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start...
...Sound and the Fury. Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton in Hollywood's skillful and carefully laundered treatment of a William Faulkner novel...