Word: russells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week T.P. & W.'s President John Russel Coulter, 52, who took over soon after McNear's death, reported some good news-about the best in the little railroad's unhappy career. From a $3,600,000 deficit four years ago, he had pulled T.P. & W.'s net up to $742,000 in 1951, paid out $825,000 in dividends and more than, $2,000,000 in income, inheritance and other taxes. At the news, McNear estate executors decided that their job was done. They voted to turn over the railroad to estate trustees...
Richard P. Russel (D-Ga.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that failure of the present Congress to adopt a UMT program would be almost a "national tragedy." Russel pointed out that a Reservist can be kept on ready status, including two weeks training, for less than $450 annually, while a regular costs...
...Manhattan staged a 70th birthday surprise party for their friend and noted wit, Franklin P. Adams Highlight of the evening: a special edition of "The Conning Tower," F.P.A.'s old newspaper column. The contributors included Edna Ferber, Louis Untermeyer, and the playwriting team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse who sounded the keynote of the celebration...
Remains To Be Seen (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse are two capable workmen who have turned out a number of successful farce comedies; "State of the Union," and "Life With Father" are two of their most famous...