Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner, and mother of Colonel (former Assistant Secretary of War) Trubee and of World War II naval officer Harry P. She refused to become New York State Mother...
...designed to unravel Brewster's main financial tangle: a stockholders' suit claiming that the corporation had been milked by three supersalesmen who took enormous commissions on foreign war contracts that Brewster would have got anyway. The salesmen: the brothers Alfred J. and Ignacio J. Miranda, and their partner, Felix William Zelcer. The settlement: the trio got clear title to $2,800,000 in commissions already paid them, to $800,000 they were paid as brokers on accessory sales, and to $500,000 of the $2,300,000 still due them...
...irrepressible psychic bidder, Kaplan opened the bidding with a heart; when his partner finally raised him to six hearts, Kaplan nonchalantly bid the seventh...
Kaplan blandly explained that when his partner supported his heart bid, he deduced at once that North must have at least four trumps to the Ace King. His stab-in-the-dark psychic landed the pair in the highest makable contract. Most teams wound up with a safe but unprofitable bid of seven diamonds. Players who got to seven spades, an apparently more logical contract than hearts on South's holding, went down on West's inevitable opening lead of the club Ace, which forced the declarer to ruff and eventually gave West a trick in spades...
Lieut. General George Kenney, the Southwest Pacific's air commander, announced the loss of his fourth key airman in three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...