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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Pulitzer Jr. got no prizes from his famed prize-giving father. His chief physical inheritance was the old man's bad eyes (Pulitzer Sr. was so blind that for the last 20 years of his life secretaries read the paper to him). Financially, he inherited only one-tenth of the Pulitzer publishing estate. Brothers Ralph (now dead) and Herbert got the prize, the late, great New York World, and lost it. Joe got the backwater St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern...
...Rosalia Mercurio Di Maqgio, 66, plump, Italian-born mother of Baseballers Joe, Vince and Dominic Di Maggio, two other sons, four daughters, passed her naturalization test in San Francisco's Superior Court with flying colors, became a U.S. citizen. Papa Joseph Di Maggio Sr., 72, flunked his, was told he could try again...
...miniature department stores, grossing $15,000,000 yearly, are 90% noncompetitive with the 122 Owl Drug Co. stores which United now operates in California. It also marks the first expansion move for United under Dart. When Dart, ex-son-in-law of Walgreen Co.'s Charles R. Walgreen Sr., went to United in 1942 (TIME, May 11, 1942), he started to contract sprawling United. He telescoped three candy and confectionery plants into one and consolidated the company's stationery-manufacturing units, along with purchasing, advertising, financial and accounting work...
...spits against the wind spits in his own face. He made it clear that he had no personal objection to Edward R. Stettinius Jr. In fact, most of Bill Langer's objections, in the old Midwest Senatorial tradition of denouncing Wall Street, seemed to be against Stettinius Sr. (d. 1925) and the House of Morgan to which he belonged. At last, not winded but despairing, Langer confessed: "I realize I am a lone voice in the wilderness." A few moments later, the Senate voted confirmation...