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...Gerard H. Fisher '49--Mary Zeller...
...Gerard Cosgrove Maguire...
Gossips linked lean, nervous Gerard MacBryan, the Raja's private secretary, to the deal. MacBryan, who calls himself a, Socialist, lives in a London flat decorated with cerise velvet curtains, hidden lighting and deep-cushioned upholstery. He was present at the Ranee's Giro party...
...dull, dragging, off-duty hours in the South Pacific, pilots in the Marine "Red Devil" squadron killed time with long bull sessions. When they talked of postwar plans, Captain Kendall Everson always had the" same answer: "I'm going to start an airline." His tent mate, Captain Gerard Ray, liked the idea, often argued its merits with Captain John Daugherty, who thought it overambitious...
...Parent Philips. In 1891, Dutch Engineer Gerard Philips borrowed 150,000 guilders from his banker father, bought a lamp works in the cheap-labor town of Eindhoven. Gerard, a few months short of bankruptcy, urged his brother Anton to try to sell Philips bulbs. Anton agreed, traveled gaslighted Europe, sold bulbs far beyond the plant's capacity to produce (his greatest coup was a 50,000-bulb-a-year order for the Tsar's Winter Palace). By 1912, the company was big enough to be incorporated (one share was worth 1,000 guilders...