Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For the Gold Racquet tournament-inaugurated last year by Manhattan Banker Harvey D. Gibson to publicize his native village as a summer as well as a winter resort-has already become an important event on the U. S. tennis calendar. On display at North Conway was 20-year-old Frank Kovacs...
...besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary...
Homiest touch: the float bearing Elmer in the Grand Parade got lost. Said Publicityman Casey, watching Elmer & attendants muddle down a sidestreet: "I admit it's corny, but I love it." Paid admissions (191,196) were 7,595 under the first-day Whalen total. More important to Messrs. Gibson & Casey was what their guests would have to tell millions of other U. S. Elmers about the Forty Fair: ¶ Room rates average lower than at the 1939 opening. The Fair advertised: 80,000 hotel rooms at $1.50 to $3; 170,000 between $3 and $5; 200,000 more...
...Foreign Exhibits, World War II notwithstanding, still make Mr. Gibson's show a World's Fair in fact. Total: 49 (last year, 58). Gone is Soviet Russia's palace (on its site an "American Common", where foreign societies...
...Banker Gibson figures that with a season draw of 40,000,000, bondholders w111 get back even money; an attendance equaling last year's 25,817,265 would give them 40? to 50? on the dollar...