Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my sincere desire ... I do not believe our present course, if pursued, would benefit anyone and I do think we might bring unpleasant attention to the newspaper business, which has been very good to both of us. In fact, I think it is wasteful to devote valuable space to personal controversies between columnists...
...plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
...office, President Alvarez sounded an optimistic note-for the future. Said she: "We have shows from all of the TV networks and a small staff (22). Maybe that way we can prove it needn't take years to get into the black." Standing by, Business Partner George Cameron said, grinning happily: "We can keep going if the oil wells keep pumping...
Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years...
...Right Note. The planeloads of guests for the opening would include Actress Alexis Smith, oldtime Star Gloria Swanson, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...