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...NATHAN D. SHAPIRO
...Married. Nathan Leopold, 56, son of a millionaire Chicago box manufacturer, who teamed with Richard Loeb in 1924 to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...
...sharp about-face, retired Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, who had logged 44 years of active service when he resigned the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last September, took a post with one of the U.S.'s largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products...
Yale Second. Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey told the Harvard Board of Overseers' meeting last week that Harvard could only be "pleased and proud" with its Kennedy-chosen. Overseer Kennedy, present and voting, replied that he had picked men on merit alone, was astonished to discover their Harvard hue. "Recently," said he, "I was relieved to find a prospective appointee on the Yale faculty. Then darned if I didn't find out that he was a Harvard graduate...
...West Side, he recalls tearfully, his Russian-born grandmother made bathtub gin to support the family, and one of Sheldon Berman's first memories is of being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting school; the sketch ends with the father's soft-spoken request...