Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety fixture in the velvet reaches of the posh supper clubs, she also helped set a trend toward acts with gimmicks. In her present carefully written show, Lisa does not take a shower on the dance floor (as she managed...
RENTED HOME APPLIANCES will be offered by Westinghouse to apartment-house owners in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It will not only rent refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, freezers, washers and dryers, but service them and replace them with new appliance models...
...Banker Harold Holmes Helm, 58, expansion-minded chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, long had his "loving eye" on the New York Trust Co. He knew that a minority of New York Trust shareholders wanted to sell out if they could get a good price. New York Trust's big wholesale banking business (specializing in large industrial accounts) and its seven offices would nicely complement his own 94-office bank doing a largely retail banking business with smaller clients. Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share...
Though shareholders of both banks (and regulatory agencies) must still approve. the merger is expected to go through in about five weeks. In pulling it off Helm will make the combined Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. (deposits of $3.8 billion) the third largest bank in New York, the fourth in the nation (after the Bank of America, $9.5 billion; New York's First National City. $6.8 billion; and Chase Manhattan. $6.4 billion...
...century-old Corn Exchange Bank, which had 78 branches and $774 million in deposits, and paid a premium of $25 a share to get the Corn Exchange stock. The price proved right. The merged bank's deposits rose to $3.2 billion in 1958. With the New York Trust Co. branches he will have the third biggest branch-office system in New York...