Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl Kelly believes and says that the Republican Party should be frankly conservative, and no nonsense about it. A hearty, well-barbered Irishman with a fine baritone voice, he learned the political ropes as highway commissioner and director of public works under Republican Governors Rolph and Merriam. Just before Merriam was beaten for re-election in 1938, he joined the Bank of America as a vice president. Last spring he started an investment banking firm of his own (First California Co.). He will run far governor, he said, if "support lines up for a real business leadership...
...From Earl Warren came no reply. Last week he was preparing to leave for London on a project which, if it succeeds, would lose him no votes at home. He hopes to persuade the United Nations Organization to set up its permanent home in or near San Francisco...
...days of bustles Earl Wilson would have been called a cad. In these days, 40 newspapers pay around $50,000 a year for his stuff, and 78,426 people have put down $2 to get it in book form (7 Am Gazing into My 8-Ball...
What they seem to like is what Earl Wilson calls the three Bs-Booze, Busts, Behinds. (Sample Wilson leer: Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...
Methodist to Madness. At 38, Earl Wilson is a chunky, sad-eyed little (5 ft. 6) fellow with an ear tuned for the casual wisecrack, an eye cocked for the offbeat feature story. The Saloon Editor comes from saloonless Rockford, Ohio, where at twelve he was choreboy for a country weekly, and later taught Methodist Sun-dav school. When he landed...