Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Man. Behind him is a picture of his two-year-old son, Joe Paul, named in part for Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, whom Joe greatly admires. Joe Paul's mother is the second Mrs. Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream...
House & Garden Harry S. Truman received a gift from the James F. Byrneses: a double portrait, in oil, by Grace Annette Du Prê, of himself and his 93-year-old mother. Another recent portrait of her already hung in his second-floor study...
Died. David Stewart Iglehart, 72, recently retired head of W. R. Grace & Co. (TIME, May 20), dean of the Long Island polo-playing set, father of crack Poloists Stewart (10-goal handicap) and Philip; in Old Westbury...
...Columbia University Joseph Peter Grace and David Stewart Iglehart were inseparable friends. When they graduated in 1894, both went to work for Grace's father, William R. Grace, founder of W. R. Grace & Co. They climbed to the top of the company together. Last week, after 51 years, both retired-Joseph Grace, 73, as board chairman, Stewart Iglehart, 72, from the presidency...
...president went Yaleman Joseph P. Grace Jr., who started working in the family business as a $30-a-week clerk in 1936. He had been acting president for eight months...