Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apple of His Eye (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; produced by Jed Harris) tells of a prosperous Indiana farmer (Walter Huston) who falls in love with his hired girl (Mary James). Knowing that he is old enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her hand. While his neighbors' tongues wag and his family's hearts sink, he squires the unsuspecting young lady to carnivals and Chinese restaurants, strains his eyes going without glasses, sprains his tack showing off as a wrestler. After much stewing, he sends the girl away. After much scene...
...sharpest statement came from D. R. Nicholson, who came to the U.S. with a British trade delegation. He was amazed to see how much harder Americans worked than Britons. "We in this country . . . have not got the same vitality." Added Nicholson: "Enough food is wasted in New York in one night to feed England for a week...
...years, Chicago's plush-and-horsehair Palmer House has been a gradually fading symbol of baroque elegance. It has also been a prime financial asset of Chicago's elegant Potter Palmer family. Last week, the Palmer House passed from the Palmers to Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the latest addition to his $100,000,000 hotel chain.* In payment, Honore Palmer, son of the "titan of State Street" who grubbed up the family fortune, got $20,000,000 from Hotelman Hilton. The old hotel was the biggest item in the Potter Palmer estate...
...basis of 35,188 obstetrical cases, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Nicholson Joseph Eastman concluded that spacing babies widely is no advantage to the babies or their mothers (TIME, May 22, 1944). His findings have now been amended somewhat by a man who has studied more figures-7,151,631 births...
Stars & Averages. When Bill ("Swish") Nicholson, last year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...