Word: dara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
...Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining at Palm Beach. John Sanford gave a party for the Italian drivers-Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Count Theo Rossi de Montelera, Antonio Becchi. The French drivers- Publisher Jean Dupuy, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Marquis Gonzalo de la Gan-dara-had a tea given them by Mrs. Frederick E. Guest. Last week, the last heats of the races were postponed so that all the drivers could motor to Miami and watch Time Clock win the Florida Derby, and attend Harry L. Doherty's dinner at the Miami-Biltmore. The next...
...largest credit rating firm in the world. Before the Civil War it was acquired by R. G. Dun who changed the official name to R. G. Dun & Co., The Mercantile Agency. He developed the art of dispassionate snooping & prying during the next 40 years until today R. G. Dara & Co. has nearly 200 offices in the U.S. and Canada, 54 offices in 21 foreign countries. But it was not the Mercantile Agency. In 1849 John M. Bradstreet, a Cincinnati lawyer who had learned an amazing amount about other people's affairs as an assignee of an insolvent estate, also...