Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth wife of the late, oft-wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a numerologist. Her long connection with the cinema dates back 25 years. Credited with knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly...
...secret, might have looked like the one-man show of a promising, well-trained youth, at home in a lot of media: oil, water color, gouache, lithography, etching, drawing. Actually, Carlen's exhibit was the work of two artists. They were identical twins: small, redheaded Freda & Ida Leibovitz...
...bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in the Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
...Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have to say; take away the whole alphabet, but don't take away the PWA"]. Columbia had a WPA Rag, a Pink Slip Blues low-moaned by oldtime Ida Cox. But WPA was different. Last week it was banned...