Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romanoff's is no longer strictly a family show. Mike has hired an old friend (and original backer) named Harry Crocker, a member of the pioneer California family, to be his greeter, public relations man and, possibly, alter ego. As Crocker knows everyone in California and Mike finds it difficult to remember any name (he once forgot how to spell one of his own aliases), this move should pay off. And it will be necessary for Mike to have someone like Crocker on hand in California if his latest venture pans out: to do over Duveen's former...
Lucille spent her childhood in Jamestown (1920 pop. 38,917), but managed to see very little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda...
Eliot plays Leverett today for the tennis championship but although the result of this match will change the total scores it will not alter the final standings...
What the Combined Charities committee is trying to do is alter students' contributing habits by changing the names on the Card, a dubious task at best. Its plan will do little more than subject students to the year long solicitations of disaffected charities...
...born in Riverside, Pa., went to Susquehanna University and Yale Law School. He left private law practice in Manhattan in 1939 to serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...