Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire & Charm. The daughter of a physician and a suffragette, Sylvia Field was born in Patchogue, N.Y., had her pretty head turned toward economics in 1929 when the stock market collapse wiped out her family's money. Then a 16-year-old freshman at Manhattan's Hunter College, she switched from English to economics to find out why, graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa...
Born. To Dorothy Collins (real name: Marjorie Chandler), 31, Canadian-born singer, longtime (1950-57) Be Happy, Go Lucky girl of TV's Your Hit Parade, and Bandleader Raymond Scott (real name: Harry Warnow), 47: their second child, second daughter; in Manhasset, N.Y. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...
...remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their degrees. One of them: his daughter, Mrs. Lillias Hinshaw, 43, wife of Manhattan Public Relations Man Robert Hinshaw (a Quaker) and mother of four. Next fall Bachelor of Divinity Hinshaw may enter the Presbyterian ministry, which has been open to women only since...
After Post died in 1914, the company went on a stock-swapping spree. Led by President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who married Post's famed daughter Marjorie and is still a partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm carrying his name), the company from 1925 to 1929 picked up many of the best-known U.S. food processors. Among them: Baker's chocolate, founded in 1765, which Postum got for $9,000,000 in stock; Maxwell House (for $46 million); Jell-O ($44 million); Birds Eye ($22 million); Swans Down ($7.4 million); also Minute Tapioca...
...Light from a wicked, sensation-mongering London press lord. When he refuses, the villainous Londoners go to work on him. They bring in their own paper, hire away Henry's old employees, grab his old advertisers, buy the very building he prints in. They even gull his giddy daughter into an interview in which she announces her admiration for their paper. Poor Henry is brought to his knees, and to bringing out the Northern Light by duplicating machine. That starts rallying British readers to the underdog, and in the end, after other trials that the reader may endure less...