Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Archie Pitt, London theatrical manager; by Gracie Fields (real name: Grace Stansfield), 41, world's highest paid show-woman (earnings: about $750,000 a year), who for over 20 years has been convulsing British audiences with her Lancashire-isms and gracelessness; in London. After a visit to Hollywood in 1937, Gracie remarked: "I like me own country better...
Contending that ex-President Guth had used Loft assets, facilities, personnel and credit to build up Pepsi-Cola, Loft brought suit for the 237,500 shares (91%) of Pepsi-Cola stock held by Mr. Guth and his family holding company, Grace Co. When Delaware's Court of Chancery last year agreed with Loft, Pepsi-Cola was selling at $70 a share (it is now $130). Pepsi-Cola profits were $2,700,000 in the first nine months of 1938; Loft lost $867,000 in the same period...
...Conference has been decided upon and the men going to Princeton are as follows: Blair Clark '40, Garfield Horn '40, Charles N. Pollak H. '40, Alfred J. Gilbert '41, Spencer Klaw '41, Rodman Gilder '40, William W. Tyng '41, F. Cameron Ludwig '42, Michael P. Grace '40, Robert Bean '39, Francis Bourne '40, Arthur Cantor '40, David Epstein '39, Arthur Gardiner '39, Armand Gilinsky '40, Stanley Kapner '40, Richard S. Lane '41, Irving Lewis '39, Treadwell Ruml '39, James Stern '39, Michael Mayer '39, Richard Ruggles '39, F. Wolch Peel '39, Richard Gilder '36, Tatsuo Miyakawa '40, Kenneth Kramer...
Later he mentioned his own effort in behalf of Hicks but when asked for the text he requested a few minutes' grace in which to find it "among my papers somewhere...
Album of Fantasias (Grace Castagnetta, pianist; Timely*: 8 sides). An anthology including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin and Shostakovich, some of them previously unrecorded. Capably performed, magnificently recorded, with an explanatory pamphlet by Author Hendrik Van Loon...