Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official holiday in the town of Princeton, NJ. Mayor Minot (Mike) Morgan Jr., a Princeton University graduate ('35) himself, had urged all 7,719 townsmen to "lay aside normal tasks" in honor of the university. Flags hung from windows and fluttered from lamp posts. At 9:30, the presidential train from Washington pulled slowly into the station. Harry Truman, who never went to college, had come to get his tenth honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to help celebrate Princeton's sooth year...
...Parade mannerisms, get a new name and a new agent. It turned out that her lusty, slower-paced new-style singing was a good complement to radio's comedians. Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks: one night Garry Moore called her "Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs." The title stuck-to Georgia's belts, cigaret lighters and anything else that could be engraved...
...members of the 30-man Board are George Whitney '07, of New York, president of J. P. Morgan Co. Inc.; Dr. George P. Denny '09, of Boston, a physician; Clarence B. Randall '12, of Chicago, vice-President of the Inland Steel Co.; Robert E. Gross '19, of Los Angeles, president and chairman of the board of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Amory Houghton '21, of Corning, N. Y. chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works...
Died. William A. Morgan, 75, Buffalo financier (no kin of the late J.P.), who virtually cornered the world copper market during World War I; after long illness; in Buffalo...
...stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...