Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Monica, Cinemactress Teresa (Something to Live For) Wright, 32, decided she had had enough "grievous mental suffering," filed divorce papers against Novelist-Scriptwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, 49, and asked for custody of their two children...
ENDS. Reporter Wright, crowed the News, had cracked a case that has baffled Chicago police since...
...reporter for the Chicago Daily News, auburn-haired Edan Wright, 34, has played as many roles as a stock-company actress. She has been everything from a prisoner in a women's jail to a patient in a mental hospital and a waitress in a strip joint. Last week Reporter Wright made the front page again, this time as a detective. Across Page One the News splashed an eight-column banner: 22-YEAR SEARCH FOR KIDNAPED BABY
...time I come in I'll be buying the newspaper." He joined a Bay Street brokerage firm, later formed his own company and became a millionaire by the time he was 30. In 1936 he returned with the money ($1,850,000, backed by Gold Mine Owner William Wright) to buy the Globe; a month later he bought its morning rival, the Mail & Empire; twelve years later acquired the Telegram for $3,610,000. A onetime Liberal, he shifted to the Conservative Party...
Hurry-Up Job. The bomber started out 3½ years ago as a makeshift project. Five Boeing engineers had gone to Wright Field to show the Air Force plans for an intercontinental turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could...