Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...
Died. Lucien Boyer, 66, Paris music-hall singer, songwriter, librettist, entrepreneur; in Paris. He popularized MadeIon in World War I, wrote for Mistinguette and Maurice Chevalier, founded Montmartre's famed Chat Noir cabaret. As Montmartre's Ambassador Eccentric & Extraordinary, he was once delegated to present his credentials to President Harding, but never made the trip...
...Institute solemnly announced that—Chicago students like the streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever I get the chance...
...March. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.64 points to 104.52; even the lowly utilities edged forward. Gains of the week: Bethlehem Steel, 2¼ points; Allied Chemical, 7½; Beech-Nut, 6½; Eastman Kodak, 5¼; American Telephone, 3⅝; Westinghouse, 3⅜; General Motors, 1⅝; Singer Sewing Machine, 10¼; Philip Morris...
Sands, E. A.; Sherman, F. J., Jr.; Shepard, D. A.; Shore, B. E.; Singer, M. B.; Skardon, W. R.; Smith, D. W.; Smith, S. O.; Spalding, I. E.; Sparks, B. S.; Stewart, J. T., Jr.; Stockbridge, H. W. C.; Stone...