Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got $625 from a Filipino lawyer, put up $825 between themselves. The editors took pen names: Utin, whose name is a dirty word in Tagalog, became Eric Raymond. His partner, wanting something fancier than Schutz, became Chris Edwards. The first issue of the Philippine-American was peddled in horse-drawn jitney carts, was a 2,000-copy sellout...
...refused to explain last week what his new Distributor's Guide, Inc. proposes to do for its customers when they start arriving. His partner, Brother William, onetime president and business manager of the Daily Worker, let a little information leak out. They had been busy for a month setting up an information service for store owners. Their specialty sounded like a shrewd idea: helping clients to find scarce items of merchandise...
...Both were supplied largely by two brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their father, nor wait till they inherited the bulk of the $25,000,000 Slick fortune...
...lead was management's because "management is in charge . . . management must manage." But labor would have to be a full partner. "We do not want to destroy the unions. . . . We want to strengthen their leadership. . . . [But] union leaders enjoy a social power of enormous proportions. They must accept the social obligations that go with...
...comic who appeals to both crowd and clerisy, 57-year-old Bobby Clark has clicked in virtually every form of show business. Until 1936 he was the better half of the great vaudeville comedy team of Clark & McCullough. After his partner's suicide, he went on-as very few survivors of famous stage partnerships have-to achieve greater fame...