Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...Murray Corp.'s Easy Division of Syracuse increased its sales almost 100% over June in July, 22% in August and 20% in September, expects to triple its first-half sales volume in the last half of 1958. ¶ Whirlpool has seen a general upswing in orders in the last six to eight weeks, had the best sales in 18 months in September, is adding overtime...
When he first comes on stage, he is disappointing; without makeup and costumes, he looks like Arthur Murray. But he gives each fragment a life of its own--which is one reason they seem so wrong together. As he changes from Hamlet to Polonius, from Hotspur to Richard II to Lear, his voice and his very face change with the part...
...Form. In their multimirrored rococo main studio in Manhattan, Arthur Murray, 63, and Kathryn Murray, 52, last week exhibited a new application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers...
...Murray lifers like to keep on, say the Murrays, for the fun and companionship, and because there are always new dances to master. The Murrays are ever on the lookout, will go a long way to study a new dance. Their current specialty, researched in the Caribbean: the stiff-legged merengue, an old folk dance that some say got a new lease on life after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo was injured in a car accident, could not limber up to the beguine or bolero...