Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...society editors all over the world knew the name of Eugene Higgins. After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor...
...reminding voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 35, multimillionaire turfman, and second wife Jeanne Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt, 29, brunette socialite who once worked as a pressagent for Manhattan's chichi Stork Club: their first child (his second), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Heidi. Weight...
...miners in the steelmakers' "captive" coal pits went the same $1-a-day boost John L. Lewis had wangled from other coal operators. Then U.S. Steel Corp., which had held out for more than two months against the wage-price spiral (TIME, May 3), gave Phil Murray what he wanted for his steelmakers: an average 13?-an-hour increase. Other steel companies followed U.S. Steel's lead, were expected to follow it also with price lifts (see BUSINESS...
Disappearing Act. In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream...