Word: baer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago in San Francisco, gruff, bearish Amadeo Peter Giannini, 75, "retired" boss of the Bank of America, was attending a board meeting. As Senior Vice Chairman Francis Shaw Baer droned through figures describing the bank's condition, old "A.P." fidgeted like a school boy with two fingers raised. Suddenly he jumped up, pounded the table and roared: "For God's sake, Franny, give 'em the big news...
Died. Joseph Vincent Connolly, 50, onetime editorial kingpin of the Hearst empire, hardheaded, hard-working boss of Hearst's King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle...
Keith has already been taken on a California tour by Henry Armstrong, who says the youngster has "the greatest left I ever saw." Jack Dempsey and Max Baer admire the junior pugilist. Sportswriters who have seen him are enthusiastic. As for Keith himself, he simply proposes to lambaste his way to the championship of the world...
...troop transport going into Tarawa: Ladies' Day, with Patsy Kelly, Eddie Albert, Lupe Velez, Max Baer. Newsreel: capsizing of the Normandie, Manpower Boss Paul McNutt addressing the 1942 American Legion convention...
...Senior five, all on leave since last February, are Theodore S. Baer '44, Norwood, Army; James H. Donald '44, Dallas, Texas, Harvard Medical School; Harold C. Fleming '44, Atlanta Army; Thomas H. Green, Jr. '44, Bloomington, III, Harvard Medical School; and Edmund L. Saunders '44, Mattapan, Boston University Medical School...