Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hear Music (Russ Morgan; Decca). Cute rendering of cutest tune from the film Dancing On a Dime...
Chilean Heavyweight Arturo Godoy drew order number 3981 in the draft, fumed: "I want to fight . . . Hitler, Mussolini or Joe Louis, any way, any time." Disgusted at being called "Liz" for short, Elizabeth Emerson, 16, of Summit, N. J., daughter of Sumner B. Emerson, vice president of Morgan Stanley...
...Morgan's underwriting offshoot), went to court to change her name to Charlotte Elizabeth-at Elizabeth...
...elder J. P. Morgan made Fry curator of paintings and buyer for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Critic Fry appreciated neither the good qualities of the U. S. landscape ("One expects a new continent to be more original") nor those of Mr. Morgan, whom Biographer Woolf describes as a man of prodigious vanity and colossal ignorance. Mr. Morgan's power over the Museum-a "worse than Turkish rule"-soon led to Roger Fry's dismissal...
...Morgan, his friend, the "elderly and well preserved Mrs. Douglas," her duenna and a cadging Italian courier. Mr. Morgan, said Mr. Fry, was rude everywhere. When, off Ancona, a choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies...