Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, with John Lund and Richard Widmark...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Late Christopher Bean, with Irene Dunne and Thomas Mitchell...
Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Morley and Irene Rich in J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley...
Wind Up? Things looked so bad for Waltham last spring that President Guild-en bowed out in favor of 42-year-old Paul P. Johnson, who had been hired as general manager. But Waltham needed more than new blood; it also needed new money, and it already owed Boston banks $4,000,000. Unable to get the cash, it went into receivership...