Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Audrey Meadows, 31, red-haired stage actress (Top Banana), long-suffering TV wife of Comedian Jackie ("The Honeymooners") Gleason; and Randolph Rouse, 37, Washington realtor; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Three Empty Rooms which dealt with a pair of miserably shy newlyweds, but wound up strongly affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge...
...Arizona's Paradise Valley, where Frank Lloyd Wright and his students at nearby Taliesin West design homes for desert living. Realtor Merle Cheney bought 6,000 acres of land for as low as 25? an acre, now sells it at prices up to $3,000 an acre...
...manage pension and trust funds for workers have a prime problem. How can they invest the $2,500,000,000 to $3 billion that is pouring into the funds each year? Three months ago, Manhattan Realtor Louis Sachar, who heads Marshall Management Corp. and owns or has interests in 85 buildings in New York City, decided to help them with a new investment idea. He persuaded two pension funds to pool part of their cash with his organization and form a real-estate buying group with capital of $140 million. Although Sachar has kept the name of the funds secret...
...BOSTON REALTOR ABRAHAM M. SONNABEND, 58, admits to a fortune of "a few million" made by buying up properties cheap and improving them for resale. Sonnabend has won control (chairman of the board) of Botany Mills, is president of the Childs restaurant chain, now runs a string of seven hotels, including Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower. In 1950 Sonnabend and his associates bought Cleveland's $100 million Van Sweringen property for a total of $35 million, of which they had to put up only...