Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Status Quo. In Newport News, Va., Railway Owner W. C. King Jr. took on a new partner, Jeff L. Robins, heralded the event in the local Daily Press: "You will receive the same lousy service . . . probably even higher prices, and the only real difference is that Jeff shares in the profits, if any, or has to make up part of the losses...
...Tydings. Tall, wide-grinned John Butler went to work at 14 in a mattress factory for $3 a week, financed his own schooling at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Law School. He married into the Abell family, which founded Baltimore's influential Sun papers, eventually became a partner in a prosperous law firm. Butler won on the McCarthy issue, arguing ceaselessly that Tydings had whitewashed the Communists-in-government charges; McCarthy himself campaigned in Maryland, but Butler said afterwards, "I asked him not to come...
Henry Clay Alexander, 48, the new president, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and went from Vanderbilt University ('23) and Yale Law School to corporation practice with Morgan Lawyers Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. He was a Morgan partner by the time he was 36. For the past 22 months, as executive vice president, he has been in line to move up. As he did, President George Whitney became chairman, replacing longtime Morgan Partner Russell C. Leffingwell, who, at 72, stepped down to vice chairman...
Hilda Crane is such stuff as matinees are made of-one of those middle-class studies in scarlet chronicled from the first sleeping partner to the final sleeping pills. It expertly works the old Belasco formula of being realistic in all its details and stagy in all its essentials. Far from being convincing, it is not really specific: the characters are all preshrunk types colliding in pretested situations. But though often banal, the play is seldom boring...
...Chance on Love), enlist June Haver and Gloria De Haven, who perform proficiently as a sister team, and radio's Tenor-Comic Dennis Day, whose shrewd timing as an arrested adolescent makes him the movie's most valuable player. In the role of Day's publishing partner, William Lundigan labors unrewardingly with most of the plot chores...