Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silent. "The damned thing's dead," shouted the host, but he went on anyway. "Sam Rayburn is a great man; he has a heart as big as the state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...
...demanded Scott's head. Now that they had it, they were not sure just whom they wanted in his place.* Among the likeliest candidates: New Jersey's National Committeeman Guy Gabrielson, Michigan's National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield, Nebraska's State Chairman A. T. ("Bert") Howard...
Critics of radio commercials will be pleased to learn that these questions haunt no less a person than six-foot, greying Howard S. Meighan, 42, who is a CBS vice president. A huckster of 21 years standing, Meighan charged this week in the trade sheet Variety that radio's basic flaw is "the insincerity of language and manner used in the average . . . commercial...
...November 1946, Straus had bought control of the Schick injector razor, looking for a cushion against hard times. He got a cushion all right (the razor division helped Eversharp show a $1.2 million profit last year), but there was a big pin in it. The pin was R. Howard Webster. To get the razor company, Straus had to take Webster, a big Schick stockholder, into Eversharp as a director. That was the beginning of Straus...
...mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward wife...