Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Esther Williams, 35, cinemermaid: Ben Gage, 42, manufacturer, onetime radio actor-announcer; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Alimony awarded to Esther: $12 a year...
Kittredge was a hale, hearty man, who chain-smoked cigars to save on matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...
...snatched from under its nose by the Philadelphia Museum. This week the Los Angeles County Museum had something worth crowing about. Up on the wall of its softly lighted Spanish Gallery went a handsome new acquisition with a resounding title and glamorous history: Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz as Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry by Spain's famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (see color page). For generations in the hands of the Dukes of Wellington, the Muse is also a handsome tribute to the scholarship, energy and tenacity of bustling 41-year-old Richard Fargo...
Only the Western lines felt relatively chipper. Their dependence on high-cost passenger traffic is far smaller, and many also operate profitable sidelines. Hard hit was Santa Fe, with a January-February drop in net from $8,900,000 to $3,700,000 because of slack freight traffic in petroleum products and durable goods. But Union Pacific's January-February railroad net slipped only 1%. Also in good shape was Southern Pacific. With rising income from pipelines and trucking affiliates, S.P. expects roughly the same earnings of $27.2 million in the first half of 1958 as in the same...
Died. Charles H. Strub, 73, founder and developer of the Santa Anita race track, longtime (1917-38) president of baseball's San Francisco Seals; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Pioneer of the $100,000 handicap in the U.S., Strub introduced many improvements to American racing, including the photo finish, electric timing, saliva tests, and the "paid gate" (his theory: if a customer cannot pay admission charges, he has no business betting...