Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwyer played it safe. He thought Franklin would make a "great Congressman," but then qualified it by saying he wouldn't dream of interfering in the 20th. After all, he was a Brooklyn Democrat himself, he observed carefully. Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time to work something...
Pennsylvania-born Peter Mennin is something of a phenomenon among U.S. composers: at 25, he has already had three symphonies performed, and he is not a bit complacent about it. With a grin, he dismisses his first symphony, composed at 17, as "too damn long." He says, "Let's just forget about the Second"-even though it won the Gershwin and Beams prizes...
Others in the cast of 30 include Peter D. Dibble '48 as Dr. Bradley, Virginia Donaldson as Nurse Preen, John Mannick '48 and Margaret Hughes as Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, in whose home the action takes place, and Barbara Nathan '48 as Aunt Harriett...
...show will run from April 13 to 23 in Rindge Technical High School auditorium with Monty Woolley in the lead role. Tickets will go on sale in Boston next Wednesday. The HDC will continue to accept mail orders for a limited time, Peter D. Dibble '48 said last night...
National said it was negotiating to sell 346,000 of its shares to W. R. Grace & Co. (joint owner with Pan American Airways Corp. of South America's Panagra). Of the total, President Joseph Peter Grace Jr. had already agreed to buy 174,000 National shares. Joe Grace, who has headed the shipping company since 1946, thought it should branch out even more in the air-travel field. National also was dickering for Pan Am to buy 346,000 shares on its own hook, and agree to interchange some routes and equipment with National. Neither company would have control...