Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Wall Street's 1,200 market dopesters and crystal ballers felt a rosy glow. Some expected a rise of 20 points more or less, which would put the industrial average even with the peak of the 1946 bull market. Others, like Shields & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, were more optimistic. Said he: "My ultimate objective [for the average...
...feminine leads, now evidently one of the company's strong points, are Margaret Mitchell as Phyllis, Denise Findlay as Iolanthe, and Elia Halman as the Fairy Queen. Miss Mitchell, seen before as Yum-Yum, has a delightfully crystal voice and an acting manner no less charming. Her eighteenth century makeup is excellent, and her innocent, pseudo-proper, very British diction in the spoken dialogue a special attraction of the evening. Miss Findlay is bewitching and demure as the 17-year old mother of the lad of 25, and Miss Halman perfect as the frightening but not really fierce Fairy Queen...
...Manhattan dress designer named Wilma announced a new specialty-wedding dresses for divorcees. She suggested a pink silk shantung suit for the second marriage, a black silk faille suit with a crystal embroidered lace blouse for the third. Said Wilma: "The bride's sophistication should increase in direct ratio to the marriage multiple...
Received by Joseph Stalin, from the glassworkers at the Sklara Poremba factory (who are either brave or humorless) : a crystal ball. Stalin shot it along to the Museum of the Revolution...
...grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married: in 1925, to Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young Oakland widow with a son, James. Children: James, 28 (adopted); Virginia, 19; Earl...