Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music critic of Washington's tabloid Daily News confined himself to a one-sentence review: "Miss Jeanette MacDonald, wearing a shimmering cocktail dress, a six-foot-long fur piece and a hat with feathers, sang at Constitution Hall yesterday...
Died. Margaret Wise Brown, 42, best-selling author of childrens' books (more than 60 in 15 years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness...
Coach Poley Guyda won't be with his freshman soccer team this afternoon when it meets the Yale freshman. Former varsity coach James MacDonald will handle the team in the absence of Guyda, whose brother died yesterday...
...lumbering, 65-ft. Executive Cruiser, with bar, built-in TV, movie screen, radiotelephone, conference room, and sundeck from which a model dived into a portable swimming pool. Price: $75,000. But the trailer that interested dealers most was the National, a smaller model with which Mid-States President William MacDonald, 44, hopes to boost his sales 36% next year to $30 million...
...bringing out his 1953 models, Trailer Maker MacDonald was reinforcing his position as top man in an industry which in 22 years has grown from almost nothing to a $248 million annual gross. MacDonald typifies the trend. A onetime bus driver, he bought a trailer company in Chicago in 1945, grossed $300,000 the first year. Now he owns seven companies that will gross an estimated $22 million in 1952, with almost 10% of the market...