Word: forde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Glenn Ford, 43, cinemactor (Blackboard Jungle-); by Eleanor Powell, 47, dancing screen star of the '30s (Broadway Melody of 1936, 1938, 1940); after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Aaron Sapiro, 75, fiery lawyer from San Francisco, who promoted cooperatives in state after state, sued Henry Ford in 1927 for libeling the Jewish religion in his weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and settled for about $80,000, later became involved with Chicago gangsters; in Los Angeles...
...Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will recall 38,000 laid-off production workers. Ford Motor Co. is confident that it will be able to get by without a major stoppage...
Demand for the new models is strong. One big factor is the powerful sales appeal of the compact cars, which account for 25% of total 1960 models produced so far. The orders are pouring in so fast that Ford last week made plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently...
...Step Up Toward Heaven, Author Adela Rogers St. Johns, a loyal plotholder in Forest Lawn, has provided a gushing biography of Hubert Lewright Eaton, 78, the man who made Forest Lawn what it is today. As Biographer St. Johns, 65, sees her subject, Eaton is not only the Henry Ford of the business, a man who has "revolutionized cemetery development throughout the English-speaking world," but also a major prophet who has helped to change mankind's conception of death...