Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surprise. Since Foster felt he had only been the instrument of his partner in making his fortune, he gave much of it away. But he still thought he had too much, since "my needs are small." Last week Foster invited many of his old friends -along with representatives of educational and charitable institutions-to a party in Cleveland's Hotel Statler. He promised them the "surprise of their life...
Foster thinks something was done for him because "everything I touch makes money." When he was 14, he persuaded his father to let him plant four acres of potatoes in March before the frosts are normally over. Then, as Claud Foster says, "I prayed to my partner every night to keep those potatoes from coming up too soon. It was the first year in a long time there wasn't a killing frost after
...notes. He called it the Gabriel Horn, founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos. One day he was on a boat approaching a dock. As he now recalls it, his attention was directed by his secret partner "to a workman who was wrapping a rope around a pile, snubbing the boat." It gave him the idea for the first successful auto shock absorber, the Gabriel snubber...
...Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner, Gordon Dean), since 1946 headed the joint Senate-House atomic energy committee...
When Dean is drafted, he smuggles his civilian song & dance partner Jerry into the paratroops with him to help put on a company camp show. Jerry, posing as a paratrooper (in a trick breakaway uniform), all but breaks up the division by asking his sergeant to tuck him into bed, captures a general during maneuvers, jumps from a plane without his chute and lands on Dean's parachute in midair. The screenplay of Jumping Jacks is lighter than air, but the picture may divert those moviegoers who relish Dean's singing and Jerry's uninhibited simiantics...