Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy, warned a pack of restless Iowa delegates: "You go for Stevenson, and you're dead." Husked back one delegate: "You're looking at a bunch of corpses." Final...
...crash brought the argument full circle. Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N. (ret.), a survivor of the Shenandoah crash but still the champion of the big, rigid ships, hastened to accuse the Navy of "questionable wisdom" in building oversized, noncompartmented blimps, suggested that with modern construction methods rigid airships would be far safer. Blimp men were equally quick to defend their ships. Even though he still could not explain the crash. Captain Frederick N. Klein Jr., commanding officer of Fleet Airship Wing One (which includes the three remaining ZPGs, along with some smaller blimps), insisted: "I still think we have...
Truth's metaphor is the needle, The magnetic north of purpose Striving against the true north Of self . . . or share such wisdom as he feels can surely apply to all men in every time...
...Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried on in grand style...
...Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny: "I don't want to give the impression that I am against sons-in-law. If they are the right type, they will provide for themselves and their families...