Word: allertons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Delafield's homely comedy of quiet laughter and gentle tears chiefly concerns Caroline Allerton (Patricia Collinge), a dowdy little matron on whom is just dawning the appalling realization that life has no more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only with his paper business and the most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into...
...Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr. '17 will be no stranger to this group. His father, a powerful member of the Board of Overseers, designed the Memorial Church and a number of the Houses. His partner, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, of the law firm, Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, has served on the Corporation for several years. His error, an unfortunate birth in Chicago, was rapidly remedied at Groton...
...most outstanding Mayflower descendant residing in New York in 1933." More famed for his Dutch ancestry, the President can claim Mayflower descent in 16 lines from no less than ten passengers: Richard Warren, Francis Cook, John Cook, Mr. & Mrs. John Tilley and Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Allerton and Mary Allerton...
...America which operates 20 hotels (the Clifton and the Niagara. Niagara Falls; the King Edward, Toronto; the Durant, Flint, Mich.; the Roosevelt, Manhattan; the Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia; the President, Kansas City, Mo.; El Conquistador, Tucson, Ariz.). Big hotels in receivership include the Hotel White, the Fifth Avenue, the Allerton Houses, Manhattan. Bonds in the Stevens. Chicago, biggest U. S. hotel, last week sold at 25? on $1.* Pierre's, Manhattan, defaulted on bond interest...
...York office. He was just 32 in 1926 when he formed his own enterprise, G. L. Ohrstrom & Co. Inc. with his own offices in Wall Street. Now his organization has offices in every important trade center. He was responsible for important financing: the towering Bank of Manhattan Co. Building; Allerton Corporation (residential hotels for unattached ladies and gentlemen); and, biggest and most important, Tri-Utilities. With a strong face, a bold eye, an athletic demeanor (golf, horseback), young Banker Ohrstrom became a popular topic among Wall Street journalists and conversationalists. They talked, rather to his embarrassment, of his brilliance...