Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores, including such potent merchandisers as New York's Bergdorf Goodman, Chicago's Marshall Field and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, put up $127,000 of the $277,000 capital for Irene, Inc., of which Irene owns 51% of the common stock. Irene promptly plumped down $75,-ooo for a 12,000-square-foot factory in Culver City (four minutes by car from her M-G-M studio headquarters), plus $11,000 more for remodeling. By October she expects to be turning out Irene-designed suits at $185 to $285, street and cocktail dresses...
...also earned a tidy sum and an abiding reputation as playwright and director for Marcus Cook Connelly. He has never risen to such heights since-he has spent his time writing or directing a couple of minor successes and a couple of major turkeys, acting a bit, devising Hollywood dialogue and "heading too many committees...
...sickly Author Caldwell went on writing ''novels, essays and poetry by the ream," until she became almost blind. Recently her husband, Marcus Reback, an immigration officer, carted out the last "bushel-buckets" of his wife's discarded, unpublished works and burned them in the incinerator of their beautiful Eggertsville, N.Y. home. In the conflagration, Author Caldwell estimates, were some 140 novels ("they didn't burn well...
Whether she realizes it or not, I am of the decided opinion that Oscar-Winner Olivia de Havilland made her discovery that "It's the adjectives that count" [TIME, March 31] not from "reading a lot of books between scripts," but from her husband, Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, author of the novel Delilah...
...chapter, consisting of imaginary interviews with Plato, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, Spinoza and Schopenhauer, shows Professor Edman as an eclectic honeybee of philosophy, his nectar sacs full, his buzzing melodious and sunny. His conclusion: ". . . Though the order is not found, the inquiry proves, itself, a goal...