Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...
...sister to Tracy Lord (Miss Hepburn). Lenor Lonergan proves that not all child prodigies are in Hollywood. Borrowed from the Mercury Theatre, Joseph Cotten proves that some good guys can be found among the rich. Also outstanding are Shirley Booth, as the sharp, brittle-tongued photographer and Van Heflen as the liberal, wealth-bating and Luce hating reporter...
...makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably survive as a string long after Hearst is gone...
...sister-in-law runs errands...
Under the joint direction of Nadia Boulanger and G. Wallace Woodworth, the concert will help to establish a fund for the presentation of a scholarship to some promising young composer, Nadia Boulanger is the sister of the composer whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1918, and in whose memory the scholarship is to be given...