Word: philadelphia
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...Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris salon just...
...prowl for a candidate for mayor in next fall's election, Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes-if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support...
...Hollywood to peddle his audience-research act to producers, Philadelphia-based Pollster Albert E. Sindlinger trotted out some tempting figures to convince the moviemen that they actually have something to sell. Feature films, said Sindlinger, will soon be classified by their expected box-office gross, and will fall into three groups: 1) under $2,000,000, 2) from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, 3) from $9,000,000 up. Although the total number of movie theaters in the U.S. has dropped from 18,719 to 11,200 in the past two years, Sindlinger insisted that "blockbusters...
After starting out in the dress business in Philadelphia, Sacks charged into radio and public relations. As A. & R. man (artists and repertory) beginning in 1940, he coralled Sinatra, Shore, Benny Goodman and Harry James for the Columbia label. When he left for RCA ten years later, most of his stable followed him loyally. Later, his duties as NBC vice president in charge of TV programing and talent still consisted largely of coddling performers, listening to their troubles and shrewdly guiding their careers...
...trouble and the fun begin when Mrs. Pennypacker (Dorothy McGuire) discovers that Mr. Pennypacker, who spends every other month away from home on business, has made an even greater contribution to the growth of Philadelphia: nine sturdy young Pennypackers. Illegitimate? "Mr. Pennypacker," an innocent clergyman confidently declares, "is a family man." Bigamy? "Morality," Mr. Pennypacker proposes, "is merely a matter of geography." What is right in Salt Lake City cannot be wrong in Harrisburg -or even in Philadelphia...