Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World. Ted Thackrey met Mrs. Elaine for the first time about three weeks ago, through a mutual friend who intended to put up half the money for the Compass. When the friend backed out, Mrs. Elaine coolly agreed to put up both halves. For around $2,000,000 she will get all the preferred stock; Thackrey will hold 51% of the common, and complete control...
...their little garden, and once in a while they still showed up in church. But no matter how much money they made, they seemed to spend less & less. They never painted their house, never allowed any-repairs. Fannie kept their money tied up in little packages which she hid around the house. When she died in 1930, it took Charley quite a while to find...
Left alone, Charley withdrew more & more. He grew old and stooped, needed a thick cane to get him around. He refused to buy new clothes, kept only two old kerosene stoves for heat in wintertime. There seemed to be only one great pleasure still left in his life: Charley liked to be with the kids of the John Kerr Primary School near his home...
...star some day." By the time he was 15, the lesson was well learned. "Kid," he confided to another trouper, "I'm going to the top in this business. Mama says so." By the time he was 31, Mom had traveled more than 100,000 miles with him around the Big Wheels and in the nightclubs as business manager, cook, claque, straight woman, goad and inspiration...
Strauss & Sparks. A debonair and handsome man, Arthur Fiedler is known around Boston as both a socialite (he married a onetime Beacon Hill debutante in 1942) and a "spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took...