Word: lenoir
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Paul Andor recreates his original Broadway role as Mr. Lenoir, the hotel-keeper, and speaks French with a good accent. As his wife, Suzanne Caubaye speaks a pseudo-French English that has too many Yiddish touches...
...also symptomatic of the revolution that has taken place in the American Machine & Foundry Co. Formed in 1900 as the cigarette machine-making subsidiary of James Duke's tobacco trust, A.M.F. became an independent firm after the trust was broken up in 1911. Under the presidency of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, who had been an American Tobacco Co. vice president, A.M.F. developed the first cigarmaking machine. With a patent monopoly in the field, A.M.F. was able to charge the entire cost of the machine (about $4,800) upon installation, then collect a royalty of $1 for every 1,000 cigars...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
...country," says an oldtimer in Winds of Morning, "puts an edge on a man." It can put an edge on a writer too. About 15 years ago, H. L. (for Harold Lenoir) Davis marked a fictional trail through the big new country north of California and west of Idaho in a first novel, Honey in the Horn. Author Davis climbed astride the tired old cayuse of the western story, rode it through a bright panorama of the old West, and won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize (1936). In his latest book, Davis goes for the same sort of ride...