Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Gloria Swanson, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...
After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...
Since then 46-year-old Miss Hepworth, wife of topflight Painter Ben Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...
...month with their new 48-in. Schmidt telescope, two astronomers at Palomar Observatory spotted a thin streak made by a rapidly moving object. When the streak, in slightly different positions, showed up on later photographs, the astronomers were sure they had seen something new. Last week Drs. Seth B. Nicholson and Robert S. Richardson announced that the streak was an asteroid (midget planet) only nine-tenths of a mile in diameter and about 8,000,000 miles away from the earth...
...Published by L. K. Nicholson, no kin to Ralph...