Word: winfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Eugene Pallette, 65, rotund (285 Ibs.), sandpaper-voiced Hollywood character actor; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Born in Winfield, Kans., where his actor-parents were playing a one-night stand in East Lynne, Actor Pallette made more than 1200 films, first as a juvenile lead in the Norma Talmadge era, later as an archetypical funny fatman (The Ghost Goes West, Heaven Can Wait...
...past 30 years. He served a term as a credit man, took over the retail end of the business when H.S. & M. began buying up shaky retail outlets in 1926 (first purchase: New York's Wallach's stores). In 1933 he worked with the late Mark Winfield Cresap, then president, in overhauling the company's management and policies, has been making most of the executive decisions ever since...
...Winfield W. Riefler, Federal Reserve Board economist, reported that the FRB's industrial-production index would probably go down another two points in February from the January figure of 125 (1947-49 = 100). That would mean, said Riefler, that output since the postwar peak last October has dropped about as much as it did in the first four months of the "exceptionally mild" setback in 1948-49-Economist Edwin G. Nourse, who was head of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers during the 1949 recession, told Congress what the current figures mean...
First-ballot choice of the nominating committee for new president of the convention was spectacled, Nebraska-born Winfield Edson, 45, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif. A low 80s golfer, camera fan and chinchilla breeder on the side, Winfield Edson has boosted his church's membership from 1,500 to 3,724 since 1939, has averaged a speech a day to do it. Not content with expanding, his church has pushed members out to form ten new churches in the Long Beach area...
Passionate Voyage. In Haverhill, Mass., Winfield E. Donahue was fined $100 for reckless driving after his girl friend told police that when she refused his marriage proposal, he replied: "O.K., you asked for it," and rammed a telephone pole...