Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news about T.W.A. seemed bad last week. The TWA Constellation Star of Cairo cracked up in Eire, killing twelve (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the partnership between thin, erratic Howard Hughes, who controls T.W.A., and roly-poly, even-tempered Jack Frye, who runs it, cracked up. But the second crack-up might prove to be good news for T.W.A...
...automaking partnership between the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and the Graham-Paige Motors Corp. was lopsided from the start. Newborn K-F quickly raised $53,000,000 in two stock issues. But old, financially queasy Graham floated only $11,500,000 in bonds to finance its part of the venture. By last week production delays had so cut into this cash that Graham could not go on without help...
...Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...Polly, Tom seemed an exciting escape from Bob Tasmin and the everlasting Right Thing he represented. Bob always said and did the right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...