Word: wilmarth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passengers to walk the plank. One pirate told of a lady passenger who asked for a reprieve while she changed into a white dress, then calmly walked to her death. Were the lady in white and Theodosia the same as the lady in the portrait? The present owner, Wilmarth Lewis, Yale '18 and a Horace Walpole scholar, believes that they were. He points out that the painting was later picked up by a descendant of the Burr family simply because of the likelihood that it portrayed Theodosia. Wilmarth's late wife, who was a Burr-family member, inherited...
Upon stockholders' and the Government's approval of the merger, Davies' man on the broad new American President bridge will be Raymond Wilmarth Ickes, 53, who last week moved to the A.P.L. presidency after four years in the same job at Pacific Far East...
...gifts, buildings and grounds, honorary degrees), and in the evening go to Mory's, where the waiter laconically asks each of them: "Clams or oysters? Steak or lobster?" Informal talks are leavened by tact, wit and persuasive intellectual argument. "There is a tremendous sodality," says Walpole Scholar Wilmarth Lewis, who holds the record for continuous membership, 26 years...
Other predictions: Adlai Stevenson, Thurgood Marshall, Jose Figueres, Philip Hofer, Whitney Young, Mark Rothko, Wilmarth Lewis, Mary I. Bunting, Krister Stendahl, Donald R. Griffin, George Beadle Alfred H. Barr, Leonard Baskin, Archibald Cox, Paul Nitze, Alfred A. Knopf, Walter Muir Whitehill, and Clifford K. Shipton...
Speaking on behalf of the university, Wilmarth S. Lewis, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, said, "The death of President Griswold at the height of his career is a tragic loss to the university, its alumni, and its friends everywhere.... His influence will continue to animate the university and the memory of him will gladden the hearts of his friends...