Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Details of the deal were simple. Along with three other top managers of National Theaters (Elmer C. Rhoden, Harold J. Fitzgerald, F. H. Ricketson, Jr.), Skouras was allowed in 1944 to buy a fair-sized interest ($565,000) in the company as "incentive." The incentive worked well for all concerned-including National Theater's stockholders. Net profits have been increasing steadily, would be more than doubled this year according to the rate of earnings for the first five months...
...election day he went to the polls with his grandmother and grandfather, John F. ("Honey") Fitzgerald, onetime Mayor of Boston. Then he sneaked off to a movie, A Night in Casablanca. That night, when returns showed he had beaten his toughest rival in his home territory, grave, earnest, teetotaling Jack Kennedy knew he was in. Rarely has a Republican Congressman been elected from the Eleventh District...
...Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky Pearl Bailey, who stops the show with Legalize My Name in Broadway's St. Louis Woman...
...tables. They are tough, and completely amoral, possessing an intentness and a capacity for brutality of which even the gangster is hardly capable. (In a Chandler or Cain story, the gangster is always sophisticated and generally weak.) Right now these men "constitute the ragged edge of literature," as Scott Fitzgerald said of Oscar Wilde, but at least they'll bear watching...
Hour of Mystery (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). The second of U.S. Steel's summer series: Geraldine Fitzgerald in The Black Angel...