Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amherst was founded in 1821, but not by Lord Jeffrey Amherst for whom it is named. Lord Jeff had "conquered all the enemies that came within his sight . . . in the wilds of this wild country," during the French and Indian...
...Brooklyn subsidiary, Abraham & Straus, and Federated's famed Lazarus brothers: Fred Jr., $100,000-a-year president; Simon, $100,000-a-year president of Federated's Columbus (Ohio) subsidiary, F. & R. Lazarus & Co.; Robert, $75,000-a-year vice president of F. & R. Lazarus; and Jeffrey, $75,000-a-year vice president of Federated's Cincinnati subsidiary, John Shillito & Co. The plan, said Federated, would provide "those executives with a greater incentive for resourceful and imaginative employment of their skills...
...wish I had room to tell you about all the others TIME & LIFE have mobilized for you Somewhere in England-about Wilmott Ragsdale, Sherry Mangan, Jacqueline Saix, Jeffrey Mark, Dennis Scanlan...
...characters run from Lord Jeffrey Amherst and the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes to Harpo Marx and the only man in the world who ever persuaded a camel to walk backwards. There is a heroic, the-play-must-go-on story about Katharine Cornell, who once arrived late for her show in Seattle, found her audience patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen...
...Author. Novelist Marquand resembles Jeffrey Wilson more than the protagonists of his three New England novels. Born in 1893, he grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong...