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...Sidney and Beatrice Webb. * Between them, Joe and Marjorie Davies and their six daughters, three each by former marriages, have been married 20 times. Her daughters have had ten husbands; Adelaide Close married 1) Thomas W. Durant, 2) Merrall MacNeille and 3) Augustus Riggs IV; Eleanor Close married 1) Preston Sturges, 2) Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, 3) George Curtis Rand, 4) Hans Habe, 5) Owen D. Johnson and 6) Leon Barzin; Nedenia Hutton married Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. The Davies daughters have wed six times: Eleanor married 1) Thomas P. Cheeseborough Jr. and 2) ex-Senator Millard Tydings; Rahel married...
...Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear and my mother's got her thumb...
...decided to do it through Preston East Dome Mines, a gold-mining company 20% owned by him. Preston flew a staking crew of 75 men with equipment into the Blind River area, even brought in lawyers to draw up the necessary claim and transfer papers on the spot. After seven weeks Hirshhorn and Preston Dome filed 1,400 claims to 56,000 acres, and set off a rush that brought 8,000 claims from other prospectors. To develop the claims on the south end of their property. Hirshhorn & Co. set up Pronto Uranium Mines, and landed a $55 million government...
...fidgety William Preston Few had a. sort of double vision. No dream was big enough for him, and no detail was too small ("I notice that there are lights that burn continuously in the library. Please find out where this fault is and have it remedied at once"). In 1921, thinking he was about to die of pneumonia, he wrote out a complete plan for turning Trinity into a full-fledged university, and just before lapsing into a coma, told his wife: "Put this in an envelope...and see that it gets to J. B. Duke." When he recovered...
...Preston said that if damage costs ever mounted higher than the laboratory's budget, he would present the bill to the Navy with an ultimatum...