Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knock on the Door. After the pictures, it was time to head for the dining room, where Cook Zephyr Wright waited with a holiday meal featuring turkey and corn-bread stuffing and sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows. But hold on there. "Come in and see our house," said the President to the reporters. "It'll just take a minute." Lady Bird looked pained. "Honey," she said in wifely tones, "I promise I'll give all these folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey...
...JOHN A. WRIGHT East Setanket...
...year to run the White House and grounds, with a domestic and maintenance staff that normally stands at 77.* Jackie Kennedy's French chef, René Verdon, will stay on-but mostly to perform for fancy official affairs. For everyday eating, Lady Bird brought along Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnsons' cook for 21 years. Zephyr is an expert at spoon bread, homemade ice cream and monumental Sunday breakfasts of deer sausage, home-cured bacon, popovers, grits, scrambled eggs, homemade peach preserves and coffee...
They said it would never fly when Orville and Wilbur Wright built the Kitty Hawk for $1,000 in 1903, but they were wrong. And they said it would never fly when volunteers finished a replica of the craft. This time they were right. The plane is destined to sit in the Wright Museum in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and so the engine has no pistons. It was built to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first powered flight, and Astronaut John Glenn, 42, was on hand to see how it all started. The space program, he said, is no different...
...belated success of color tele vision delights Joseph Sutherland Wright, 52, who steered Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. into the field in 1961, five years after RCA paved the way. Boasting that Zenith's sets cost more but are worth it, President Wright expects his color TV sales to double to 180,000 sets this year. RCA will market about 500,000 color sets in 1963, but Wright has broken its monopoly in color TV tubes by building a plant to supply half of Zenith's tubes. Joe Wright has an unlikely background for an executive...