Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, for the moment a lonely bachelor veteran of seven marriages, put up for sale the complete furnishings (estimated value, over $100,000) of the 29-room house on his five-acre. $400,000 estate, Bon Repos, in New Rochelle, N.Y., announced he had not made up his mind whether he would sell the rest. Meanwhile he is making his home in the eight-room guest house...
...Bachelor of Arts. Marsden was born Edmund Hartley, of English parents who had settled in Lewiston, Me. He studied at the Cleveland Art School, Manhattan's Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...
...dignified Chicago bachelor, Harold Leonard Stuart, 63, head of Halsey, Stuart & Co., last week walked off with $100,000,000 worth of bond business. Banker Stuart had won another round in his eleven-year-old war with Wall Street...
...torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them all. "You go to a buffet supper at Count Bonzi's bachelor quarters and find dining and dancing and everything going on in one lovely long ballroom, overlooking one of the dramatic hills of the city, from which weakling children used to be thrown in the hearty days of the Republic...