Word: riley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Dolores Del Rio, 54, durable, still beautiful Mexican-born cinemactress (What Price Glory?); and Lewis A. Riley Jr., 45, TV producer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Newark...
...carried Eddie Guest to fame and wealth. With the Free Press as his home base, Guest at one time saw his verses syndicated in 275 newspapers. He filled 25 books, and some 3,000,000 people bought them, as before they had bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb Riley. A Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies...
Guest's success confounded him almost as much as it did his critics. As well as anyone else he knew his limitations. "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used to write," said Guest. "All he tried to be was sincere." All Eddie Guest was was sincere; reading his verses on TV, he used to weep with the emotions they aroused in him. And perhaps it was because millions of readers recognized sincerity and shared in those emotions that Edgar A. Guest, the newspaperman who wrote verse, was a U.S. phenomenon...
...federal taxes) also reached a record in May of $81.03 a week for a factory worker with three dependents. The department also reported a May rise of 0.1% in the consumer price index to a record 124% of the 1947-49 price average. But Bureau Price Chief H. E. Riley said that the change was an expected seasonal rise that has taken place every year but one since 1947. Though further small rises may take place in the next few months, harvests are expected to lower food prices in the fall...
...JACK RILEY Fort Bliss, Texas