Word: york-born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million contract for development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also took on a new Air Force secretary, New York-born Physicist Harold Brown, 38, who succeeds retiring Eugene Zuckert. A brilliant McNamara protege who has been directing the Pentagon's research and engineering program, Brown is reputed to be the one man who can stump the boss...
Without Delay. New York-born Dr. Uhr (pronounced "oor") had been planning to specialize in internal medicine rather than immunology until, after graduation from medical school and between residencies, he found he had six months to kill. He spent them studying microbiology at New York University. ''Within a few weeks I became involved in the excitement of that work," he says...
Pierre was born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a penchant for supporting liberal causes. She now lives in Carmel, Calif., enjoys nothing more than regaling reporters with clinical details regarding the problems she had nursing little Pierre...
Down in Washington, D.C., four-times-married (and divorced) Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur Atwill Heiberg, 67, was writing her memoirs and saying a few advance words about her second husband. She became Douglas MacArthur's first wife in 1922, said the New York-born socialite, over the objections of General John ("Black Jack") Pershing, who was also courting her. "Pershing told me if I married MacArthur he would send him to the Philippines." But she did not divorce the general eight years later because she hated the islands, as has been reported. "It was an interfering mother...
...fans, New York-born Bennett is a regular Dr. Feelgood - and Tony knows the reason why. "I have a feel for people," he says earnestly. "I want people to like me, and I get a kick out of making them happy." At concerts, he dispenses his Feelgood formula so lavishly that by the time the night is 20 songs old, his coat and tie lie crumpled on the stage; when the curtain falls, Tony answers the storm of applause with grins and salutes and bold, looping autographs for the fans to save forever. Last week he dashed into Columbia Records...