Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week he was closing a deal to sell a sizable chunk of his acreage to a combine headed by Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe. Howard Hughes controls...
...good deal less diplomatic in its anger over the Hercules flight and the U.S. military in general. "A new menace!" it cried. "The loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional committees on U.S. preparedness made by Chairman...
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus (fictional names for Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb) are wealthy, brilliant young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior...
...John Nathan's clipped, formidable, authoritative king proves that all the vitality has not gone out of the Lancaster family, but with few other exceptions the supporting cast is a random, uncomfortable-looking, and ill-spoken...
...mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...