Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Takes a Heap o' Livin'. In Akron, Earl Hartung & family had to evict the squawking tenants before moving into the only place they could rent: a chicken coop...
...tough-guy convert to Hamlet, on opening night was Producer Todd's great friend Toots Shor, whose Manhattan restaurant is the sports world's second home. Toots's tribute: "it's real cops-&-robbers stuff, with class." And during the intermission, according to Columnist Earl Wilson, Toots remarked: "I'm the only bum in the audience that's going back in just to see how it comes...
Because of war's delay, an imposing list of 183 debutantes was docketed for presentation to Canada's Governor General, the Earl of Athlone, and his Countess, the Princess Alice. One of the girls listed her home town as Victoria, B.C., 3,000 miles away. Among the others: a Molson (beer), a Dawes (beer) and a Timmins (gold). For half an hour, while friends stood on chairs to watch the ceremony, they presented cards to aides-de-camp, who announced them in precise British accents...
Tilly Losch was still the Earl of Carnarvon's wife despite his efforts to the contrary. A London judge threw out the Earl's divorce suit, finding it no desertion that the prewar dancing star went to the U.S. from Britain in blitz-busy...
Biggest contributor is the world's biggest calendar company-Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn, (it sells more than all the rest together). B & B climbed to the top partly by cornering the nation's top commercial artists (Rolf Armstrong, Earl Moran, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Par-rish), chiefly because of its ruddy-faced, peach-bald president, Charles Allen Ward, 58. Before he joined B & B, he had tried almost as many jobs as it had calendars...