Word: ellsworth
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Open for Bids. The battle started three months ago, when word got out that the Statler family, headed by Mrs. Ellsworth Statler, widow of the founder, would listen to bids for the country's third-biggest hotel chain. Zeckendorf promptly offered $50 a share for the 1,551,226 shares of Statler stock outstanding, then selling at $43.50 a share. The Statler board of directors snapped up Zeckendorf's offer, and sent a letter to stockholders advising them to accept. But it turned out that Zeckendorf was talking to the wrong people...
...Angeles superior court last week, Judge Ellsworth Meyer answered a question that has been exciting Hollywood for three years. The question: May movie producers "blacklist" actors and writers who duck behind the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions about past or present Communist associations? Judge Meyer's unequivocal answer...
Died. Dr. E. E. (for Edison Ellsworth) Oberholtzer, 72, one of the founders (1934) and first full-time president (1945-50) of the University of Houston, second largest (total enrollment: 13,361) university in the state (first: Texas U.); after long illness; in Houston...
...highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, they say, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...
...Ward Ellsworth Swarthout is a stocky little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) motor bug. As a peacetime Army pilot in the '20s, he flew airplanes for a while, but gave them up as "too dangerous." Swarthout found a substitute in something closer to the ground by turning auto racer in big (270 cu. in. cylinder displacement), standard racing cars, then gave them up for earth-hugging midget (up to 145 cu. in.) racing. Last week, at Brawley, Calif., 50-year-old Ward Swarthout, now a grandfather, was happily racing just a couple of inches off the ground...