Word: owner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farthings) and movies (The Bespoke Overcoat, Expresso Bongo). He has turned them loose in plays, short stories, poems, TV shows and news stories. He also finds time to serve as a successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach on anyone's preserves...
...Wood house in London and an eight-acre, 16th century manor in Kent. His real rewards, says he, are to have achieved "independence, privacy and space." Despite such serene surroundings, he insists, "I have more in common with any other freelance, from a prostitute to a delicatessen owner, than the stiff, abstract tedious people from the literary world...
Born. To Roberta Peters, 29, Manhattan-born petite coloratura of the Metropolitan Opera, and Bertram Fields, 38, hotel owner: a second son; in Manhattan. Name: Bruce Erric. Weight...
...giving as he did out of getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat...
Although the pinball machines attract considerable attention, local restaurant owners discount the effect their removal would have. "The pinball machines form a small percentage of our business," stated Henry Baumann, owner of Elsie's. "The boys use them to relax. They are the ones who would complain if the machines were removed...