Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Composer Foster died in a Bellevue charity ward in Manhattan in 1864, he left 38? and a scrap of paper bearing the five words, apparently the title for a new (and never written) song...
...Five Sisters. In the Daly family of Fond du Lac, such activity is standard. Chi-Chi's sister Marguerite, 32, is a top Chicago model. Kathleen, 29, is a high-salaried Manhattan ad executive (Revlon, Maiden Form) and Maureen, 27, is the author of the perennial bestseller Seventeenth Slimmer and a Ladies' Home Journal editor. (Her husband, Mystery Writer William McGivern, resignedly calls himself "the fifth Daly sister.") On the Dodd, Mead list this year, the Daly-McGivern clan will be responsible for eleven titles...
...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
Bass Fiddler Lee Norman, a member of Petrillo's union, was no actor. But five months ago, when he began to act as master of ceremonies as well as fiddle at Harlem's Regent Theater, the vaudeville union socked him $50 for a card. Fiddler Norman also paid, but Petrillo called out the orchestra and closed the act. Said Petrillo: "I am being mercenary . . . We are going to get back that...
Murray is suffering from a five-way squeeze play. He is under pressure from industry and from much of the public to compromise before a stoppage that may cripple the economy; but this is the least of his worries. He has to go before the national convention of the CIO in less than a month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing...