Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio comedians got on the record, too. The ten: Benny, Cantor, McGee & Molly, Gardner, Burns & Allen, Bergen, Amos 'n' Andy. They formed their own company, Audience Records, Inc., and this week will release one eight-side comedy album of each act. Price: $4.50. The records will be banned from the air and from jukeboxes. They are designed, the company pressagent explains, for posterity and such of the living as would like to be the life of the party. So the folks at home will know when to laugh, the records were made with a studio audience...
Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...this winter was one of the worst. On one of its dark days, dour Donald W. Douglas rolled his first postwar plane, the DC-6, out of his Santa Monica plant. A fat-bellied big brother of the famed DC-4, the plane was sold to United Air Lines, Inc. and its boss William Allan Patterson, who looks and sometimes sounds like a small, precise adding machine. Patterson thought that his new buy was a good plane. And his line badly Heeded such a plane. But he had no intention of putting it into service until he was sure...
...Early for Wolves. Rumors of a collapse in the slumping women's apparel industry (one report had 75% of the women's coat-&-suit makers in New York idle) flew so thick & fast that many manufacturers were hard put to deny them all. Up-&-coming Henry Rosenfeld, Inc. (TIME, June 10) was so harassed by reports of its imminent failure that it finally took full-page ads in Manhattan's Sunday papers to dispel them with its balance sheet. Main point: cash in bank, $1,119,006.70; "owed to banks...
...latest squabble was started by Remington Rand, Inc., reported to be the largest minority stockholder in G.A.F. (the Government owns 97%). Rand, maker of photographic as well as office equipment, seeks control of G.A.F., whose 3,500 patents make it the richest of all plums in Alien Property's hands. Chairman and President James H. Rand, 60, a brisk, bulky individualist who will go the limit to have his own way, loudly charged that the Government's Alien Property Custodian had been entirely wrong in seizing G.A.F. in the first place soon after World War II began...