Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stand. Jaws dropped all along ad agency row last week as "the Fear" was felt in the offices of Ruthrauff & Ryan. Mr. Hill's $3,000,000 radio account (Frank Morgan and Jack Benny) was quietly taken from R.&R. and handed to Foote, Cone & Belding, thus giving the agency all of American Tobacco's advertising accounts (worth about $900,000 a year in commissions to F.C.&B.). It was the second body blow for R.&R. in the past two weeks (TIME, Sept. 2) but the agency seemed to be bearing up nobly. Although many an adman...
...then LaGuardia created a political displaced person by announcing the "release" (as UNRRA director for Germany) of Britain's Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan. His reason: reorganization of UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were helping Jewish refugees to escape from Poland; later he was reinstated. He recently charged that UNRRA is an "umbrella under which Soviet spies are working." The next day, General Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander in Europe, announced that one Russian UNRRA employe had just been arrested as a Soviet MGB (secret police) agent...
Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
...time he was 31, Ed Stettinius, son of a Morgan partner, was a vice president of General Motors; at 37, board chairman of U.S. Steel; then, successively in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, chairman of the War Resources Board, priorities director of 0PM, Lend-Lease Administrator, Under Secretary of State, then Secretary of State...
Married. Harry P. Davison, 48, Morgan-partner-son of Morgan-partner Henry P. Davison; and Eleanor Sparks Martin, fortyish, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Cunard White Star Line resident director in the U.S.; he for the second time; she for the third; in East Norwich...