Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They ate Missouri ham and hominy grits and sang the parody of Tipperary. They got Harry Truman's autograph on menus and dollar bills. There was a great deal of joking and ribbing. Eugene Donnelly, the battery wit, announced to the President: "Now Battery D is going to give you something about as worthless as a Republican County chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would...
...Beans. He was to get a good deal further. In two years as head of the education program in the Truk District (in the Navy-administered U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands*), he was to teach hundreds of island boys & girls to read & write, and to build a general school system from scratch. By last week, with his tour of duty in the Pacific ended, 32-year-old Bill O'Brian, a graduate of Wake Forest College with an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, had gone far beyond his original Navy directive. He had founded...
With all the sedate modesty of a skilled campaigner, Paley described his victory as "rather casual and ordinary." Negotiations with Bing, he said, had taken about three weeks and everything else about the deal is a "trade secret." Crosby and Skelton are expected to make the move to CBS this fall...
Damon had plugged for "regulated competition." Thus, selling American's subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines, would be a step away from Damon's ideas and towards a chosen instrument. So Damon was not told about the deal till it was all set (TIME, Dec. 20). He began feeling, in his own words, like an "ideological schizophrenic." Last week, after 13 years at American, 51-year-old Ralph Damon quit...
...part of the Parton deal, the Down Town Shopping News Corp. sold its stock in Pacific Press. (Pacific Press, largest West Coast printing plant, prints the Shopping News, and the West Coast copies of TIME and LIFE.) TIME Inc. bought the preferred stock; the Clement Co., Buffalo printers, bought the common stock...