Word: father-in-law
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Back in 1946, young Joe Cooper and his" father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine...
...prospect that extended 100 miles before him was deeply satisfactory to the man on the terrace, for within it he had ridden trails, painted the colorings, read the local history, gone fishing, driven back in his father-in-law's Packard from Eldorado Springs on the first trip he had taken after his wedding. Contemplating it, he seemed unusually relaxed and contented, for here was the segment of land that he had always most liked to come back to. Suddenly from below, from the croquet garden of the hospital, came shouts denoting that here was another day, spent...
...Chester, Pa., Magowan started selling handbags at R. H. Macy & Co. after graduating from Harvard, became merchandise manager of inexpensive, ready-to-wear departments at 31. He quit to become a vice president of N. W. Ayer, left the agency to go to Safeway, in which his father-in-law, Charles Merrill, head of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, had bought controlling interest. Magowan became assistant to President Warren after three years. In 1938 he left to join Merrill Lynch, where he directed advertising and sales promotion until he took charge of sales in 1948. Into the post of president...
...been for the war, handsome young Brad Parker would have automatically climbed the masthead of his father-in-law's Connecticut newspaper and remained true to his socialite wife Jane. If it had not been for the war, lovely, English Valerie Russell would never have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...
...amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned out over 200 songs, one of which. The Regular Army, O!, ribbed contemporary recruiting methods so hilariously that one irate Army officer complained that it had grievously curtailed enlistments...