Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's highly polished film about a jilted wallflower; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...
Divorced. William Saroyan, 41, literary show-off (he has admitted to being a genius) and champion of "the beautiful people" in short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), hit plays (The Time of Your Life) and novels (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 24, New York socialite; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Died. Alexander Harvey, 80, Brussels-born onetime reporter (the old New York Evening Telegram), an editor on the New York Herald, and the Literary Digest, critic (William Dean Howells) and essayist; in Dumont...
Died. The Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning, 83, Episcopal Bishop (until 1947) of the New York diocese; in Manhattan (see RELIGION...
...biggest gripes of U.S. railroaders is that their barge-line competitors use the federal-maintained inland waterways, and that trucks and buses use highways also built with tax dollars. "We don't want subsidies," said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads last week, "but if the Government persists in subsidizing our competitors, we may have to accept them." If that threatened socialization, he added: "You could also have socialization by simply running out of money...