Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...
This week Victor Alessandro, 29, is making good his 24-year-old threat. From the podium of Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium he will guest-conduct the Minneapolis Symphony. And the experience will not be particularly novel. In the past six years, small, stocky Conductor Alessandro has led his own Oklahoma...
...time guest soloists who visit Oklahoma rapidly succumb to Maestro Alessandro's easy, breezy charm. Jascha Heifetz, a normally cool and noncommittal artist, thawed to the point of telling Oklahomans: "I am going to do all 1 can to make the Oklahoma Symphony known-but it will be known without...
...print. The men he represented got the headlines: Marshall Field III, or Akron's Jack Knight, the nation's fastest rising newspaper owner. The man-behind-the-deal got the Miami Herald for Knight, then sold him the Detroit Free Press, lock, stock and Edgar A. Guest. Five months ago, he helped Knight buy the Chicago Daily News, fourth largest afternoon paper in the U.S. His chores for Marshall Field include winning over Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff from Field's opposition at $2,000 a week...
...vast armies of men soon to return from the mud and foxholes of overseas combat will demand adequate incomes and assurance of continuous employment," Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, and guest preacher at Appleton Chapel, declared in an interview yesterday. "The returning serviceman will regard this security not as a bonus but as a prerogative implied when conscription itself went into effect...