Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
...Caras' dangerous cut-shot for the right-hand upper corner pocket-when, if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand on a soapbox. He uses a 20-oz. cue, opens his mouth ferociously when making a run, takes no exercise for fear of becoming muscle bound, supports nine members of his family on his winnings...
...William A. Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence and enthusiasm of the parents. Any feeling...
...Harvard Undergraduate has been led to believe that his financial relation with his college involved something rather more personal than that between a customer who puts money on a counter and the proprietor who offers commodities in exchange; he has been encouraged to regard it as a sort of partnership in which he was the junior member whose financial interests were respected and clearly outlined at every turn. The Administration has adopted the role of Senior Partner and has acted in good faith, not only respecting the undergraduate interest, but keeping it foremost. But in this, as in many another...
...prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes to bed alone, without her stockings. A forger (George Raft) is unable to find anyone who will cash a good check for him. He ends by trading it for one night's shelter, to the proprietor of a 10? lodging house who uses it to light a cigar. A bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth) and her husband (W. C. Fields), a condemned murderer (Gene Raymond) are also among Mr. Glidden's beneficiaries, as is a miserable fat clerk (Charles Laughton). This...