Word: angels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food by way of relief. Therefore, her supplies are diminishing alarmingly. I am most anxious for the baby's food to get off right away. If she had to go a day without the right food, we would all end up in the insane asylum. She is an angel with a temper that pierces eardrums, raises roofs, blasts buildings...
Jose Limón's girl friend had to drag him to his first modern dance recital. That was 17 years ago. He watched the great German dancer Harald Kreutzberg do his "Angel of Last Judgment," turned to the girl and said: "Charlotte, my God, that's what I want to do!" That kind of dancing, he decided, "looked like something a man could do without being ridiculous." Last week, looking far from ridiculous, Jose Limón and his company danced two of his infrequent recitals before sell-out crowds in New York. Critics now rank...
...Marseilles, angel-faced Actress Danielle Darrieux said she was now going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio...
...were nearly broke, sometimes hungry and always bewildered. Chicago's Civic Opera House, the house that Insull built, was ready for their premiere and so were they (with Puccini's Turandot). But Impresario Scotto, who had spent $45,000 to bring them over, was broke too. His angel, a Manhattan manufacturer of lubricating equipment, would put up no more money. The opening was postponed because there weren't enough funds to pay the stagehands and musicians...
...heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by his father in the F. W. Woolworth Co. Young told Kirby that he had a good proposition lined up, and Kirby came through with $3,000,000. The obliging Mr. Kirby, now president of Alleghany Corp., has been the financial angel in many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany, which give Young his control. In short, Kirby has supplied the cash, Young the plan to use it. Partner Kolbe, now president of Chicago's United Electric Coal...