Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...
Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...
...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...
Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
...Divorced. Actress Katharine Hepburn, 33; by Broker Ogden Ludlow of Alexandria, Va.; in Hartford, Conn. Throughout their six-year marriage, ended by Miss Hepburn in a Mexican divorce in 1934, Ludlow stayed so far in the background that he was something of a mystery man. Main known fact: Miss Hepburn got him to revise his name down to Ogden Ludlow from Ludlow Ogden Smith. Concluding, after eight years, that the Mexican divorce might not be legal, Ludlow got another last week to make sure...