Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Morgan Partner Edward T. Stotesbury died in 1938, Whitemarsh Hall, his 145-room country house, north of Philadelphia's swank suburban Chestnut Hill, had stood empty and unlived in. In the winter of 1942 it became a place of mystery. Passers-by reported strange doings. Around the vast, Versailles-inspired mansion a high steel fence went up. By day armed guards patrolled the herbaceous borders. By night great floodlights on the parapets sometimes flashed on to light up Whitemarsh Hall's massive, two-story limestone facade and Ionic columns...
...that "Es verboten' to walk in the driveway behind Morgan 3," the necessity for a door in that direction seems, in itself, questionable. So, we spent the week looking for a reason behind the new screened-box arrangement aft of Cowle, and have reached, after what might be called an exhaustive research, a startling conclusion. From those in the know comes a plausible, if not satisfying, explanation: To wit: Boston is a very cultivated and humane place. Along with Societies for the Continuation of Pilgrim's Day and the Prevention of the Slander of the Irish, is the Greater Society...
Association members attended an amiable, buzzing, first-night reception, divided $1,035 prize money among eleven of their number. Among the guests of honor were white-haired Art Patron Anne Morgan, Novelist Fannie Hurst. Top prize: $200 went to 50-year-old Dorothy Eaton of Petersham, Mass, for her large genre painting Country Auction. Another prize: $100 to 33-year-old Manhattanite Anne Eisner for Autumn Landscape, an earthy, heavily painted view of fields and houses...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...