Word: rea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, 26, of the Cellophane-Nylon-gunpowder dynasty, and Arminda Rea Dunning, 20, of New Jersey; in Manhattan...
...nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
Editors like Gurney Williams consider Gardner Rea, veteran of 37 years in the business, and Virgil Partch, a comparative newcomer, two of the top artists in the country. (But Peter Arno gets top pay. When he bothers to turn out a cartoon the price is reputed to be $1,000.) Partch, no Wednesday go-to-market man, lives in North Hollywood, Calif., has never been east of New Mexico, tells editors he can make his characters just as gruesome in the West as he could in New York...
Dixon Merritt, skinny, big-beaked Tennessee newsman who in 1909 hatched the famed but limping pelican limerick,* couldn't stop friends from improving the occasion of his retirement as REA press-agent with the revelation of his own (fit-to-print but still limping) favorite...
...once a militant political body, opponents saw that a Christian Democratic Party embodying Integralist principles was on the way. Instead of the old slogan, "God, Country and Family," Integralist leaders would shout, "Christ and the Nation." And the propaganda organ would be a new and well-named weekly, Reaçâo Brasileira (Brazilian Reaction), edited by Pedro Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, one of the followers of Nazi-loving ex-Police Chief Felinto Muller...