Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark old countinghouse at Church and Chambers Streets in Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
...Henry William Putnam Jr. grubbed away in the same office, without changing the furniture, for another 40 years. Tall, blond and solitary, he had only two hobbies besides making money-yachts and Shakespeare. One of his few friends was another student of Shakespeare, Gene Tunney...
...When William Woodward's Johnstown won the Kentucky Derby by six lengths last fortnight, horse-racing fans hailed an-other Man o' War. Turf experts reserved their opinions. They wanted to see long-striding Johnstown run in the mud, something he had not been asked to do this year. Last week there was lots of mud for the Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds. So convinced of Big John's prowess were rival owners that only five were willing to risk the $500 starting fee (day before) to match their...
...band played Maryland, My Maryland, Challedon and his owner, William L. Brann, standing in the winner's circle, received one of the loudest ovations in the history of 68-year-old Pimlico. For Challedon, foaled at Owner Brann's Glade Valley Farm 70 miles away, was the first Maryland-bred, Maryland-owned winner of Maryland's beloved Preakness since 1877. Rewarding his owner with $53,710, richest prize of the year for three-year-olds, Challedon became the leading money-winner among his contemporaries (foals of 1936). Johnstown has won $103,295. Challedon's total...
...Olsen & Johnson's production of Hellzapoppin. Most costly flop: Dwight Wiman's production of Great Lady. Most gored theme: antifascism, which begot four failures. Up the ladder: The Group Theatre, which produced Clifford Odets' intense Rocket to the Moon, revived his brilliant Awake and Sing, presented William Saroyan's over-rated but original My Heart's in the Highlands. Down the chute: Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre which, after its sensational doings last season, collapsed on Broadway with the anemic Danton's Death, on tour with the acrobatic Five Kings...