Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess Miguel (Anita Stewart) de Braganza plans to auction off household effects that include a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait. In brief, what with death and taxes...
...Stewart Die Casting, a division of Stewart-Warner, is facing a 50% production curtailment, has laid off 15-20% of its normal payroll of 600 men. Its general manager, George Meyer, President of the American Die Casting Institute, has been busy of late trying to persuade the Army and Navy that they can use many more die castings. Fortnight ago he wired the President to ask for more business (and better priorities) for his industry. But he has little hope of keeping it all busy...
...Byron died in a plane crash last March, Mrs. Byron gave Maryland party bosses a hearty laugh by announcing her candidacy "to carry on Bill's work." But Katharine Byron lined up Democratic delegates, ran away with the convention, went to work on her Republican opponent, A. Charles Stewart. Her campaign was simple and personal. She would stop people on the street and say: "I'm Katharine Byron, and I'd appreciate your vote." When the ballots were in, she had a slim 1,200-vote margin, out of some 50,000 cast...
Handsome, hard-hitting, outspoken James S. Knowlson, president of R.M.A., president of Stewart-Warner Corp., is one of the more foresighted radio makers. No sit-down capitalist, Knowlson was one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense business. A year ago he was telling skeptical Chicago cronies that business-as-usual was on the skids. At the convention last week, he was in fighting trim. First he warned his fellow manufacturers: "Whether it is one month or six months ... we are all going to find ourselves in the place where we are unable to get the last component...
...Network with his presence, this year has decided to immortalize his alma mater's most notorious characteristic. He and his fiancee are writing the lyrics to "Harvard Indifference Blues," which Count Basie will record for posterity . . . Another interesting new release is a series of "Improvisations in Ellingtonia" by Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard and Billy Taylor of Duke's band and the French guitarist Django Reinhardt. These four sides, made over in France about three years ago, show each of the players at his best, which is enough to recommend them