Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lou Clayton (real name: Louis Finkelstein), 63, onetime partner of Jimmy Durante (with Eddie Jackson, they made one of the most popular horse-play-and-patter teams of the '20s), his manager since 1932; of cancer; in Santa Monica...
...said, in Gordon Dean, the man Truman had just appointed AEC chairman. Wilson said that the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy under Connecticut's Senator Brien Mc-Mahon was trying to become "a super board of directors," and argued that Dean, who was formerly a law partner of McMahon's, had neither the ability nor the inclination to resist political interference...
...Paris last week, after arguing the point for 18 months, representatives of French Painter Maurice Utrillo finally convinced a court that he had not painted some 30 pictures bearing his name. The bogus Utrillos, the court decided, had been put in circulation by Jean Pinson-Berthet, ex-partner of Utrillo's art dealer. The damage to Utrillo's up & down reputation was set at 2,000,000 francs ($5,714). Pinson-Berthet, who had disappeared, was sentenced to five years imprisonment...
...months, President Truman had been unsuccessfully trying to land a man of stature as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. All the time, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon kept nudging the presidential ribs and pointing admiringly at McMahon's friend and former law partner, Gordon Dean. Last week Mr. Truman gave in to McMahon's rib-poking. The White House announced that friendly, freckled Gordon Dean, a member of AEC since May 1949, would be the new $17,500-a-year chief of the nation's billion-dollar atomic energy program...
...governor's investigators, for instance, began harassing S & G bookies. A little later the S & G-which did a $26,500,000 business in 1948-lost its racing wire service. At this point, without explanation, the syndicate got a new partner, Harry Russell, an associate of Chicago's Capone gang. After that there was no more trouble...