Word: executor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...18th Field Artillery, Lieut. Colonel Kernan once taught languages at Georgia Tech, medieval philosophy at Harvard, was literary executor to late, great Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce...
...modern freighters were drafted for Army and Navy. Grossing better than 200,000 tons, they included American President Lines' brand-new President Jackson and President Adams, its older trans-Pacific liners President Taft, President Pierce, President Coolidge and President Cleveland. American Export Lines lost its new Exporter and Executor, just completed for the India trade. Moore-McCormack, which now has 15 ships in the armed services, gave up Mormacpenn and Mormacwren from the South American run. Total of drafted passenger craft: better than 485,000 tons...
Slick little Harry Pilcer, the Fred Astaire of 30 years ago, was only one of the devotees of slim, baby-eyed Parisian Dancer Gaby Deslys, who, according to legend, helped King Manoel II of Portugal lose his throne. When Gaby died, Harry Pilcer became executor for her $2,000,000 estate. Back to his native U. S. last week, banished by the Nazis from the 21-room Paris apartment of his late, fabled dancing partner (which he had kept as a shrine after her death in 1920), came aging Harry Pilcer...
...start Am Ex's preliminary mail flights to Lisbon (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would-be airline. Because New York's North Beach Airport (where Pan Am's Clippers roost) is already overcrowded, Am Ex cannot...
...publication of his Life of Stalin meant little. His literary reputation rested solidly on the three fat, incomparable volumes of his History of the Russian Revolution-his account of the social upheaval which he did much to inspire, foment and direct, and of which he had become the literary executor...