Word: websters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newport, dimming Socialite Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster, 80-year-old widow, adopted Brigadier General Ralph C. Tobin, 57, former commander of New York's old 7th Regiment of the National Guard, as her son. General Tobin, retired, has been living with Mrs. Webster since May, will inherit her personal estate, estimated...
...Morgan Stanley & Co., Lehman Bros., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Smith, Barney & Co., Glore, Forgan & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., Goldman, Sachs & Co., White, Weld & Co., Eastman, Dillon & Co., Drexel & Co., The First Boston Corp., Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., Blyth & Co., Inc., Harriman Ripley & Co., Inc., Stone & Webster Securities Corp., Harris, Hall & Co., and Union Securities Corp...
...said, actually be a good thing, in keeping him keenly alive to story values. Novelist Hilton has spent the best part of a dozen years in Hollywood since Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips brought him fame and passage from England. Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values-in the movie sense-besides being the Literary Guild selection for November...
...Jack" Gardner, Colonel Henry Lee, and Charles Francis Adams, a gentle monotony may make the attention wander. It is not surprising, then, that the most pleasant moment in the book is an interlude. Amory takes time out for, a full chapter to tell the story of the Parkman-Webster murder case, which almost burst a blue blood-vein of proper Boston in 1849. Giving the account with subdued excitement, he advances step by step through, what he calls America's classic murder case, and proves himself an excellent writer of narrative...
...even the acting suffers from failings of the plot when situations arise which either couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy...