Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William) Averell Harriman and E. (for Edward) Roland Harriman, was formed. Four partners (but no Browns, no Harrimans) retired to officer Brown Harriman & Co., Inc. The rest of the executive staff was lifted almost entirely from outgoing City Co., including City Co.'s ranking officer Joseph P. Ripley, who I will be Brown Harriman's president...
...water colors, a beach scene and a study in light of farmers at work in a field, are the work of Alden L. Ripley. Jean Jacques Haffner, Professor of Architecture, has three oils of southern French subjects, and several engravings...
...Author. Mississippi-born (in Ripley, 1897) and bred, William Faulkner still lives there (at Oxford), with his wife, two stepchildren. Though the Sound and the Fury (1929) made him one of the coming young men, he is a lion whom Manhattan hostesses have fret to capture. He fills big pages with his tiny script, likes, to write to the accompaniment of jazz records. He indulges in solitary golf, shaves irregularly and appears easy-going but, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every...
...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
...Century News Inc. (guide books & souvenirs) 1,332,000 Eitel. Inc. (Old Heidelberg, Rotisserie, etc.) 1,138,000 College Inn Management, Inc. (Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino) 879,000 Sky ride 757,000 Pay Toilets 728,000 Belgian Village 637,000 Walgreen Co. (2 drug stores) 671,000* Ripley's "Believe...