Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grossing stars:* Jennifer Jones is rated (with just one picture -Duel} as a $10,750,000 star; Gregory Peck, with two pictures, rated an $8,000,000 average as a customer-puller; Linda Darnell (with one), $8,000,000; Gary Cooper (with one), $7,500,000; Teresa Wright (with two), $7,200,000; Dana Andrews (with two), $6,875,000; William Powell (with one), $6,250,000; Irene Dunne (with one), $6,250,000; Bing Crosby (with one), $6,100,000; Larry Parks (with...
Dixon Wecter, and Louis B. Wright of the Huntington Library. The only paid staffer is Managing Editor Edith Ronald Mirrielees, 69, a retired English professor who does her editing perched on a cushioned Governor Winthrop chair in the cozy study of her Palo Alto home...
...Council's two veteran debaters, William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin J. Jacob '47 will defend the negative on the subject: "Resolved, That the social and economic advantages to be gained from nationalization of basic industries would be overwhelming." J. Phillip Bahn '49 and Paul L Wright '49 are alternates...
...longest step in aeronautical development since Orville Wright first flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 44 years ago. But the Air Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
...Pullman Porter Fred Wright, 67, who went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...