Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul W. Jones, Jr. '44, 23, Grand Rapids, Mich., Lowell House, Government, Lowell House Committee, Dance Committee...
Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...
...Grand Slam. With Loewenstein, Emanuel planned a grandiose scheme to take over just about all the utilities in the U.S. Before the plan went into effect, Loewenstein mysteriously jumped or fell from a plane over the English Channel (V.E. is sure he fell). But Emanuel, backed by the Schroders, who had been Loewenstein's bankers, and A. C. Allyn, among others, went ahead anyway. They fixed their sights on the multi-millioned Standard Gas & Electric System. Altogether, they ante'd up about $60,000,000 and formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel...
Died. Charles Kurtsinger, 39, pint-sized "Flying Dutchman" who rode two Kentucky Derby winners (Twenty Grand, 1931; War Admiral, 1937); of pneumonia; in Louisville...
Between 1879 and 1883 a young unknown named George Bernard Shaw, living hand-to-mouth in London, dashed off five novels, one after the other. They piled up a grand total of 60 rejection slips before publication, and never made much of a splash when they were finally published...