Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday afternoon six finalists, selected by a jury headed by the Metropolitan's General Manager Edward Johnson from among the 54 voices aired (altogether 659 had been auditioned) in the 1938-39 competition, gathered in a studio in Manhattan's Radio City to hear which two of them had won the two $1,000 first prizes and contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric...
Ginger Rogers' precocity was not confined to her stage career. At eleven, she played a piano solo of MacDowell's To a Wild Rose in a Fort Worth auditorium. At 17, she married a vaudeville hoofer named Edward (Jack) Culpepper. Ginger left Culpepper three months later, divorced him, married Hollywood Actor Lew Ayres in 1935, separated from him the same year. At present unattached, she lives with her mother in the highest house on Beverly Crest, in Beverly Hills...
...managing editor of FORTUNE (1930-35), an editor of The New Yorker (1925-30). In the new enterprise, no TIME Inc. venture (neither TIME Inc. nor any of its officers has an interest, financial or managerial, in the project), Ralph Ingersoll's associates include ex-Associated Press Executive Edward Stanley, Mystery Story Writer S. Dashiell Hammett, Banker Harry C. Cushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., Manhattan Lawyer John F. Wharton. Its corporate name: Publications Research...
Visiting a brewery in Hackney (London outskirts), King George VI was presented with a bottle of beer that had been brewed by his brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1932. Flustered, the King handed the bottle to an equerry, hedged: "I can't very well carry the bottle around...
...Pliny Fisk had pegged the Government bond market at 110. One day, he happened to be standing behind the late Edward H. Harriman on the floor of the Exchange when Harriman, who had gone heavily short, attempted to break the market by a sudden offer to sell $500,000 worth at 90. Fisk promptly accepted, offered to take all others...