Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post in the firm...
Natty, wisecracking little James John ("Jimmie") Walker, 58, who as playboy mayor of New York City overlooked few bets, visited Mayor LaGuardia's breezy summer headquarters overlooking the World's Fairgrounds, grinned: "Well, well . . . . It's one bet I overlooked...
These stories Jock Bellairs denies with a twinkle in his eye. His more sober exploits he will admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser...
...draws several characters from the mob below. Anne's suicide is pictured as less a tragedy than a blessing. Because of her example the wife of an unemployed worker cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends to his future fifth wife, thus saving her from suicide. An ambitious chorus girl consents to marry an amateur philosopher, retire to the simple life in a small town in Oregon...
Bridal Suite (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), all about the playboy (Robert Young) and the Alpine maid (Annabella), may, as its producers claim, suggest how Annabella captured Tyrone Power (TIME, May 1), but is nonetheless a very bad picture...