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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When George Fort Milton Sr. died in 1924, Chattanooga had two dailies, both old and prosperous. One was the morning Times,* which the late, great Adolph Ochs used as a steppingstone to the New York Times. The other was Milton's evening News...
...Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. ("He could always read my mind"), the late J. P. Morgan...
...general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance as the hard-boiled mammy in Gone With the Wind. Cinemactress McDaniel was the first Negro to receive the prize. Posthumous were two awards: 1) to the late Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for international services to motion pictures; 2) to the late Playwright Sidney Howard for his Gone With the Wind script. Of the 17 major Oscars handed out, ten were copped by G.W.T.W. Producer David O. Selznick, pretty proud and getting richer by the minute, said he would send an extra...
Died. James Morgan Hutton Sr., 70, senior partner of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co., investment bankers; of heart disease; in his Manhattan office...
...that is a 20% slice of outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann was on his "Edgewood Ranch" in Santa Barbara, Calif., talking about big-game hunting and the Save-the-Redwoods...