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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Ethel Merman, 36, gusty, trumpet-toned musicomedy star (Panama Hattie, Something jor the Boys), and Lieut. Colonel Robert Daniels Levitt, 35, Army public-relations officer, ex-Hearst promotion man: their second child, first son; in Manhattan. Name: Robert Daniels Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Ethel Merman, musical-comedy star last seen in Panama Hattie, and Husband Robert Levitt, Captain, Quartermaster Corps: a girl. Name: Ethel Merman. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Ethel Merman (Panama Hattie) admitted she had married again. Husband No. 2 is Robert D. Levitt, Hearst promotion man in Manhattan. She met him last April, six months before her first husband, Actor's Agent William J. Smith, divorced her on the charge that she deserted him in January after two months of married life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Free Agent | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Chief beneficiary of all this brouhaha is Doughnut Corp.'s board chairman and controlling stockholder, Adolph Levitt. Operating a chain of bakeries after World War I, Levitt found that Salvation Army lassies had made doughboys doughnut-conscious, that the new market thus created needed a mass-produced doughnut, uniform and digestible. After engineers produced for him an efficient doughnut machine, Pioneer Levitt organized Display Doughnut Machine Corp. (later Doughnut Corp.) to sell it to independent bakers. In 1925 Levitt put out a standardized mix, later supplied patrons with optional trade names (most famous: Downyflake, Mayflower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Seldom seen, seldom heard. Tycoon Levitt avoids the spotlight, leaves evangelical work to dark, dynamic Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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