Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Mobraaten and Dick Covey earned scoring honors for the Crimson with 16 and 15 points respectively, while Jack Wright and Tom Smith paced the winners with 13 and 11 markers. The Jayvee lineup: rf, Altrocchi, Goldsmith; lf, Mobraaten, McGiffert, Cohodes; c, Lionetto, Dailey; rg, Covey, Brademas; lg, Brynteson (Capt.), Markham...
Tools & Stooges. He had a cozy set-up for the cozy war he fought in Washington and at Dayton's Wright Field. Despite the warnings of superiors that he must have no interest in companies which might be doing business with the Army, Meyers got his fingers into a metal-tooling factory. It was the Aviation Electric Corp., a few miles from his office at Wright. It wasn't much- a 190-ft. by 140-ft. one-story building with no more than 30 machines, at its peak. Benny put about $54,000 in it. He needed...
...found what he wanted in a mild young man named Bleriot H. Lamarre, a $28-a-week bookkeeper married to a handsome brunette named Mildred Readnower. Mildred had been Benny Meyers' secretary at Wright Field. Bookkeeper Lamarre became Aviation Electric's new president. But he was boss on the letterheads only; Meyers told him what to do and how much to pay himself ($38 a week...
...woman's angle" was covered with grim intensity. Because Hollywood's Cobina Wright Sr. was an old pal of the groom, Cobina got an invitation to the wedding-the only one on his list to a private U.S. citizen. She coolly capitalized on it by signing up with Hearst's International News Service. I.N.S. hardly got its money's worth. At a Palace reception, she was so overwhelmed by all that jewelry "that I can scarcely remember so much as the color or cut of a single gown...
...return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...