Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...
Towards 4:30* on that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always...
High Prices. The merchandiser who promulgated this piece of business iconoclasm is Eversharp President Martin L. Straus II, 50, who works as smoothly as a ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus. In 1929, as head of Chicago's Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., he saw it go broke in the depression, learned that low prices alone were not enough to make people buy. In 1939 he teamed up with Ralph A. Bard (later Under Secretary of the Navy...
...entered on the Alumni Records as of the Class of 1948: George Hutchinson Dummer, Martin Thomas Eshelman
...description of the Columbia, Tennessee, race riots of last February 25, Fletcher P. Martin, Nieman Fellow and city editor of the Louisville Defender, said last night that the problem of race relations in the South was the responsibility of the nation and the federal government and would not be solved in the South alone...