Word: brewers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fortnight ago a fungus was insured by Lloyds of London for $1,000,000. Policyholder is the Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis, which thus treasures its unique, 50-year-old brewer's yeast...
...snake-specialist son of a millionaire brewer. Returning from an Amazon snake hunt, on the ship he falls in love with a member of a card-sharping trio (Barbara Stanwyck) who has stroked his hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges...
...minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with a few leers, about how an artist and his wife sell a picture to a dealer and his wife. Best of four set pieces...
...long 80,000 shares. Three years later his second wife divorced him and married a onetime Prohibition agent. Later, to satisfy her debts, he sold his $1,350,000 estate at Great Neck, L. I. for $169,000. For his third wife, he took an Omaha, Neb. brewer's daughter, Mrs. Harriet Metz Noble, in 1933. A year later he was in bankruptcy -his fourth, for $2,259,000. At 56, he was back where he started...
...centrifugal force for Director Wood's sentiment is the impudent, pug-nosed, forlorn little face of Hollywood's latest Cinderella-Betty Brewer, 13. Three years ago Betty's father, a Joplin, Mo. lead miner, lost his job, went on relief. The following year he joined the Okie parade to California, where he joined a hunger strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan...