Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris Herter, 63, was born and schooled in Paris, where his American parents were art students. Spindly young Chris was nine when he arrived in the U.S., found himself two years ahead of his age group at New York's Browning School. At Harvard he concentrated on fine arts, graduated ('15) cum laude, then enrolled concurrently at Columbia University's School of Architecture and New York's School of Fine and Applied Art. A Harvard classmate talked him into taking a minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned...
...John Jay McCloy, 63, chairman of the board of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Philadelphia-born, Amherst-and Harvard-educated. Lawyer McCloy left a thriving New York practice in 1941 to become Assistant Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
Political geographers, noting that the road to the White House is impassable from the South but wide open from the West, suspect that Johnson might have more than one reason for his westward shift in thinking. Cracked the New York Daily News: "We'd say it's at least a 100-to-1 shot that, for all his coy disclaimers, Senator Johnson hopes to be President Johnson some fine...
...Milton J. Hammergren, retired general sales manager of the Wurlitzer Co., testified that he had used underworld contacts in such cities as New York and Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials denied all, and Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who held the Wurlitzer sales-manager job before Hammergren, called the testimony "dirty pool" on Democrat Kennedy's part...
...Albert S. Denver, president of Music Operators of New York, testified that his association of 160 jukebox operators is gradually being driven out of business, in two years has lost 1,631 "cream" locations to the rival Associated Amusement Machine Operators of New York, whose Teamster bosses, declared Counsel Kennedy, are "successors to Murder...