Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close as any twins, the Howes turn businesslike enemies when they meet in competition. "We just don't like each other on the squash court," explains Peggy. A match between the twins usually produces an extraordinary number of "let" calls, because neither moves aside to let the other have a clean shot, if she can help it. "I won't get out of her way, and she won't give me a thing," admits Peggy...
...some of the folklore that is growing up about Harry Belafonte himself, not all the sounds would be pleasant. There are some tom-toms of jealousy. A discarded former agent says: "I hate him. We had a very close relationship, but how could I know he was going to turn into an Emperor Jones?" There are some mocking ditties to the effect that he takes himself too seriously. There is the blues of his first wife Marguerite, a former school teacher in Manhattan, who says: "I remember when he used to speak about not being hired because...
...persuaded Marguerite to marry him one evening in 1948 by swinging her over a parapet by the East River and holding her suspended over the water until she said yes. "I married him," she now explains, "because I felt that if I didn't, he was going to turn delinquent...
Majority's skillful, amiable performers almost camouflage its sociological pretensions. What Majority wants to be is an adult East-meets-Western. What it is is a middle-aged Abie's Irish Rose, and it may turn out to be almost as successful...
BROKERS' COMMISSIONS on stock transactions under $2,400 will be reduced by the New York Stock Exchange. Adjustments, effective March 30, will cut last May's rate increases from 13% to 11.5%, abolish "round-turn" commissions, where customers pay half the regular rate on blocks of stock bought and sold within 14 days...