Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what Janie has been waiting for: tall, dark, handsome and a millionaire. This time she needs no urging. Dreaming of their forthcoming marriage, she visions it crowding Adolf Hitler off the front pages. Gloats her playboy fiancé: "And to think I might have married [Glamor Girl] Brenda Whitney Jr., Columbus...
Gene Tunney's Manhattan detective brother, Tom, floored a rebellious captive with one punch. It took 20 minutes to bring the captive to. ∙∙ Richard Whitney will run a dairy at Barnstable, Mass., when he leaves Sing Sing on parole Aug. 11. The farm belongs to the family of the ex-New York Stock Exchange president's brother's wife. ∙∙ Dizzy Dean began a new job as sports announcer for a St. Louis radio station. ∙∙ Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends, etc.) bobbed up in a cigaret ad, telling...
...Richard Whitney, the ex-Stock Exchange president who became Sing Sing's best-known convict, came up for parole this week, hoped to get out Aug. 11 after serving three years and four months of his five-to-ten-year embezzlement sentence. He has been a model prisoner, and a parole has been recommended by the judge who sentenced...
After a reshuffle, BMI distributed $150,-ooo for radio performances alone to over 1,000 publishers and composers. For radio sheet music and mechanical rights it sent $6,000 apiece to its highest paid trio-Joan Whitney, Hy Zaret & Alex Kramer-who are responsible for So You're the One, It All Comes Back to Me Now and My Sister and I. For You Walked By, Songbirds Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh picked up $4,000 each. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Kenrick Sparrow drew $81.84 apiece for The Rest of My Life...
...been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts...