Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatrical success, it would have to be handled with theatrical kid gloves. Brecher quite misses the boat. The story appears ridiculous as well as incredible and it is told in lines maudlin beyond imagination. Treated as fragile fancy, the nonsense may have been ingratiating; mugged by Astaire, Frank Morgan, and Mildred Natwick, it is nauseating...
...Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of glamor girl Gloria Jr. and twin sister of England's Lady Furness, flew home from England with glad tidings of London. Reported mink-coated Mrs. Vanderbilt: "The people are brave and are taking it beautifully. Nobody dresses formally...
Last week Harvard got a letter from one of its better-heeled alumni, Morgan board chairman Thomas W. Lament, '92. "Dear Mr. Conant," it read, "I have this day delivered to your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...
...last week, when Captain Kramer was reported by the Hearst press to be "missing," only to be found within a few minutes at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital (see PRESS). In some ways the investigation might be the biggest Congressional show since the midget sat on Morgan's lap. But at last the facts of the most rankling disaster in U.S. history would be spread on the public record...
...nearby Chicago's Englewood High School, where attendance is some 60% Negro, the race strike was taken up by 800 more. At Chicago's Morgan Park High, a Methodist preacher broke in on a strike rally at a vacant lot, told the students they would be striking against the U.S. Constitution. He talked most of them out of it. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly termed the strikes "prank" stuff. A handful of Chicago civic groups hurriedly put on a city-wide "Youth Rally," starring black & white entertainers (Danny Kaye, "Bojangles" Robinson), to get kids back to class...