Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elisha Walker has long been accustomed to dealing in sums ending in six zeroes and with such titans of finance and industry as Harry F. Sinclair (oil), Frederick H. Prince (railroads), Eugene G. Grace (steel), Amadeo P. Giannini (banks), Joseph P. Kennedy (whiskey, real estate), and Bernard M. Baruch (investments and advice to Presidents...
...season so far was tall, blonde Helene Thimig Reinhardt, who traveled from New York to play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...
...exactly love but mutual interests that drew W. R. Grace & Co. and Pan American Airways Corp. together. Grace wanted a better way to get South American wealth from the jungles to its ships on the coast; ambitious Pan Am saw much to be gained through Grace's contacts and capital. Result: Pan American-Grace Airways, organized in 1928 Panagra took on the job of flying the western coast of South America to Buenos Aires For a while Grace steamshippers and Pan Am airmen were happy together. But trouble soon developed between Panagra and one of its parents...
Worse yet, as time went on Pan Am showed no intention of giving Panagra any advantages. On the other hand Grace was all for pushing Panagra into the highest circles, no matter what it meant to Pan Am's prestige and profits...
...believe in (a single, eternal, all-inclusive, all-pervading Life Principle whose source and perfect embodiment is God, who finds varying degrees of embodiment in all forms of life, who is the prototype of every grace, power and nobility found in his creation, and whom I call) God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth; and in Jesus Christ (not), His only Son (for whose son am I? But), our Lord (because he is a, more nearly perfect embodiment of the Life Principle than any one I know...