Word: 28th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition alone; it rests on what he has done to rescue the House of Morgan from decline and restore it once more to the first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest...
Bulletin Board. The anniversary issue was hardly must reading on Broadway (as weekly Variety usually is), even for the advertisers who had subsidized it. In Hollywood, just a few months before, many of them had felt a similar bite for the 28th anniversary issue of the Hollywood Reporter (384 pp.) and the silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice...
Caine Mutiny. In 1942, when Paar was 25, he was called up into the Army and was put in the 28th Special Service Company as member of an entertainment troupe. Jack's first weeks in service were miserable. "I still talked like an announcer, and they didn't understand me." Even in Special Services, the average draftee did not dig his insistence on clean fingernails. Things were better overseas. Crossing to Guadalcanal on an Army troop transport, he took on a Caine-type commander who kept the soldiers on a near-starvation diet. One day during an alert...
...Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered and revived it 75 years later. By that time the thread of succession was broken (Bach, in the custom of his time, rarely wrote into his scores any indications of tempo or dynamics). But Cantor Thomas believes...
With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota...