Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Polly reminded her of Helen Morgan. Polly's admirer turned out to be Lulu Morgan, Helen's mother. Polly promptly bought the TV rights to Helen's life story, sold them at cost ($10,000) to CBS with the help of Freddie Fields, a Music Corp. of America vice president who is Polly's agent and husband. Polly, to nobody's surprise, was picked to star in The Helen Morgan Story on CBS's Playhouse...
...Pleading ill health, boxing's Mr. Big, James D. Norris, resigned his longtime job as president of the International Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
...none-and no human can stay alive without a kidney. Surgeon Reese's next swift decision was to transfer her to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where he knew that a medical team could keep her alive temporarily with an artificial kidney. Armco Steel Corp., which employs two of her brothers, flew Mrs. Lowman and Dr. Reese to Boston at once in a company...
MOVE INTO TEXTILES is being considered by fast-growing Chas. Pfizer drug house (1957 sales: $207 million). Pfizer has option to buy Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp.'s division making Vicara, a cashmere-like synthetic that has been a flop so far because it weakens when washed. Before deciding whether to buy, Pfizer will conduct major research to see if Vicara can be improved...
...looks like a boomerang on stilts, will open May 8 at New York International (Idlewild) Airport, gateway for U.S. overseas air traffic. Designed by William B. Tabler in blue and white glazed brick, the hotel was built by the New York Port Authority, will be operated by Knott Hotel Corp. It will include a main dining room able to seat 160 people, a coffee shop with seats for 100, a cocktail lounge, and telephone booths with comfortable upholstered chairs instead of the standard hard, wooden seats...