Word: scattergood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...
...Chicago, helped found and support the isolationist America First Committee. Young Henry studied at M.I.T., the University of Bonn and Harvard graduate school in preparation for a career in the family textile business. Later, he founded a successful sweater factory, and married the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Alfred Scattergood, a well-known Quaker...
...Kelland a fortune. Since his first book in 1913, he has written 38 others, some of them, such as Valley of the Sun (355,000 copies) and Sugarfoot (414,000 copies') runaway bestsellers. Others have made hit movies, e.g., Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. His most famous character, Scattergood Baines, has been the subject of five movies and a durable radio soap opera...
...Cray, a real-life cross between David Harum and Scattergood Baines, the bankers spelled out the problem. In Brattleboro, 20 miles down the river, the United Murray Heel Co. had an antiquated factory, like many another New England company, and wanted to move. But it couldn't afford a new plant. By building one, the bankers explained, they could keep the company near home. Murray, with 125 employees and a payroll of $4,500 had an annual production of 7,000,000 wooden heels for women's shoes, cut from rock maple. While the bankers doodled with interest...