Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned a bit more working with state and municipal opera houses in Germany, then went to England in 1934 as a director and general manager of John Christie's fledgling Glyndebourne company. When war came, Glyndebourne folded up for the duration. Bing got a job managing a chain of department stores...
...name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton Walker even predicted that she would show up high, on the crosstrees of Hearst's Town & Country's masthead...
...Ayer has become Britain's most discussed younger philosopher, the chief apostle of a school which its followers call "Logical Positivism." Freddie Ayer himself is a man who hates to get up in the morning and finds writing philosophy agony ("I smoke cigarette after cigarette, twirl my watch chain, and all that sort of thing"). The son of a small businessman, he made his way on scholarships through Eton ("I wasn't awfully happy there") and Oxford ("The people were much cleverer than one"). He stayed on at Oxford as a lecturer, then (at 34) Fellow and Dean...
Cried Wallace: "There is a long chain that links unknown young hoodlums in North Carolina or Alabama with men in finely tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away South." Wallace added: "If the U.S. does not get right on the segregation problem, she will lose her position of leadership in world affairs...
With the help of two sons and a daughter, all of whom work for him, Publisher Hoiles runs his chain from Santa Ana. He shouts his letters and columns to a long-suffering secretary, passes out pamphlets on Christ and taxes to all comers, harangues editors, reporters and the janitor. But he confines his independent opinions to his signed column. Says he: "The news columns don't belong to us. We're just like stenographers...