Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting pretty on Broadway was Play wright John van Druten, with two smash hits (The Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama}. Sitting prettier were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with two smash musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel)-and the producers' haul from Mama. On a seesaw were Broadway's two gaudiest impresarios: Mike Todd aground, his pockets heavy from Up in Central Park] Billy Rose aloft, his pockets light from The Seven Lively Arts. Still spry, Life With Father beat the record of Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances), had only Tobacco Road...
Last year the Big Father's amiable, balding son, Van Guelder Okie, sold the last 16,000 of Lost Cabin's sheep. By last month only 14 people remained on the ranch and in the town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit...
Last week, on their 50th anniversary, the Bekins Van & Storage companies, located in Omaha, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle, had 37 warehouses throughout the west, 430 vans, 1,270 employes (plus some 14 key Bekinses). Still operating on the happy family plan, the companies run a trainlike transcontinental van line, have 37 U.S. offices, took in $5,500,000 last year, moved more than 30,000 tons of home furnishings (the firms cannot handle general freight under their Interstate Commerce Commission permit...
Facing bankruptcy, Martin Bekins thought up, built and personally operated a covered van which proved unexpectedly successful. In 1904, he introduced the first motorized van. When Sjoerd's grand son Milo (now 53, senior family member, and president of California Bekins) was ready to go to work in 1919, he had an already flourishing business to develop...
Thrill of a Romance (M.G.M.), which is a gently feeble-minded title, suits the action to the words. The main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about...