Word: heir
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...movies. If Americans think he is evasive, it is because his natural courtesy is so great that he does not want to offend. If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated. He has grown up like the heir to a rich estate-as rich and as little exploited as any in the Orient-whose guardian has been unable either to plan for him or to set him an example that he could follow...
Retiring their fellow heir Publisher Martin, Curtis grandsons Judge Curtis and Gary Bok in 1939 staked the Ledger to more money, imported expensive Efficiencyman Guy Viskniskki and Stanley (City Editor) Walker. The Ledger that year lost $189,104. A year ago the Boks turned over the Ledger to a company headed by the New York Herald Tribune's ex-treasurer Robert Cresswell. Since then the Ledger had lost around $825,000. It died for lack of a fresh $500,000. The Curtis trustees, tired of throwing good money after bad-they claimed they had already lent Publisher Cresswell...
Married. Jack Forker Chrysler, 28, automobile heir; and Edith Helen Backus, 23, magazine cover model; in Manhattan...
Promoter of this year's tour is Yaleman ('36) Alexis Thompson, heir to a $5,000,000 steel fortune. To professional tennis he has brought a sound innovation. In addition to a flat guarantee, each of the four players will be paid according to his performance. The player winning the most matches will get 36% of the players' share of the gate receipts. The second ranking player will get 28%; the third, 21%; the fourth, 15%. "The No. 1 player should earn around $40,000," says Angel Thompson, "the No. 4 player around
...daughter of a Chicago lumberman, came from a well-to-do family; she was a comparative newcomer to Broadway; Manville had been on the wagon more than a year. "This is the real thing," he said. "I mean to settle down." Day after the wedding the silver-haired asbestos heir confided to reporters: "My heart went cloppity, clop-clop all night...