Word: fairfaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs of about 200 out of 1,000-odd F. C. & B. employees (who once included rambunctious Frederic [The Hucksters'] Wakeman). After "long and prayerful wrestling" with this problem, Foote said, he decided to sacrifice himself, if necessary. Flying to Chicago for a Sunday meeting with Partners Fairfax Cone and Don Belding, he offered to resign from the firm if his associates decided to keep the account. But Cone and Belding would not hear of it, said Foote, so the account was dropped instead...
Rebellion from the South. A man who would change all this is not a native Vermonter but a tall, determined gentleman from Virginia, Colonel Fairfax Ayres, 57. A veteran of World Wars I and II and Wall Street, Ayres retired to the Green Mountains ten years ago to hunt and fish. He bought a farm at Shaftsbury, which had a 100-year-old maple orchard. Today he owns three farms, has 3,500 buckets out and produces some 700 to 1,000 gallons of syrup. Ayres thinks that the way farmers have cut down their maple groves is bad, their...
From the moment, the Sacred Cow landed on Kansas City's Fairfax Airport, the atmosphere had been warm with easy-going friendliness. Nothing tickled the President more than the greeting of one overalled crony: "You look fine. You're just the old farmer boy like you always...
...Both were still going strong, Miss Dix as an oracle in 216 papers, Mrs. Gilmer as a grande dame of New Orleans with an annual income of more than $75,000. Her column held a record for longevity, beating out the Katzenjammer Kids by a year and Beatrice Fairfax...
Died. Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax (real name: Marie Manning Gasch), 70, the first journalistic heartmender; of a heart attack; in Washington. The 1898 brain child of 20-year-old Sob Sister Marie Manning and the late Hearstling Arthur Brisbane, "Advice" soon was a must for 200 papers. Marie married, others took over. But 1929 sent her back to title, typewriter and text: "Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves and dig for a practical solution...