Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also turned sex into sales with its own Kinsey report on John Bull's private life (headline: 450 VERY FRANK MEN AND WOMEN). Last summer, when cameramen pursued Princess Margaret (see below) into an Italian grotto and peered into her bedroom, the Pic loudly protested this invasion of her privacy. Naturally, it had to run pictures to show how unprincipled the invasion had been...
...this speculative fever had been stirred up by the hope that the U.S. would raise the price of gold, and thereby devalue the dollar. To this, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder had said no, a thousand times no. He had flatly declared that the U.S. will not change the price of gold, that it has not even considered such a move. Still, the gossip and gabble continued...
Wherever a tourist goes in Washington, he usually finds that a fellow named McShain has been there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...
...Carpenter's Apprentice. McShain, the son of a prominent Philadelphia builder, entered Georgetown University at 19, intending to become a lawyer. But when his father died in John's freshman year, he decided to carry on the business. For three years he worked on the job with his employees, learning to be a carpenter ("That's what a builder really is"). At night he went back to the office to study bookkeeping and estimating. In 1930 he got his first chance-the Philadelphia Board of Education's $2,100,000 Administration Building. "It looked...
...Married. John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), now a public relations man for the Dutch government; and arty, brunette Virginia Daly Lunn, 33 ; he for the third time (he was divorced last August by Anna Roosevelt), she for the second; in The Hague...