Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Rose, 66, tiny, tough-talking director of Circulation ($110,000 a year), is an ex-newsboy, disciple and brother-in-law of the late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...
...divorce out of the paper or something." When he dies, the Colonel will leave his empire in the hands of a junta of its officers. He has no son & heir, but he has a favorite niece, blonde Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 26 (daughter of the Colonel's late brother Medill and Ruth Hanna McCormick), who is learning the business with her husband by running a small-town daily in La Salle...
...facilities. And their charges are true, but they are not the whole story. From the times of the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, the society of the United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother's keeper. In the process of conquest of a land of milk and honey the mores and working rules of society were those that gave success to the man who could best look after himself. But the social conscience, the human sympathy, Christian spirit, or whatever you choose to call...
...Mademoiselle?" asks the desk clerk, giving Vicky a fishy stare. "What has become of Monsieur Barton, your brother? But how should we know, Mademoiselle? Mademoiselle herself ought to recall that she arrived unescorted yesterday. Room 39? Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo. Mademoiselle looks faint, and perhaps is not well...
Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...