Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the Lottas is a ruggedly hand some, grey-haired, energetic woman named Fanni Luukkonen. Long a temperance worker and schoolteacher, she has traveled widely, has interested herself in national defense, is a member of the board which assembles and publishes official Finnish documents...
...joint debut at the Carlton Hotel of Mary Margaret Jackson and Jean Browne Wallace, 18-year-old daughters of Solicitor General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Howett) Jackson and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Carrying bouquets given them by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the debutantes for two straight hours hand-shook Washington socialites, Government wigs and hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than one usually sees at afternoon parties were...
Maney's stunts are those of a born tongue-in-cheeker. When he did the publicity for The Great Magoo, which the critics drubbed, he had a hand in the decision of its playwrights, Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, to lie in state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin...
...Consumers Power's $70,000,000 of preferred stock is added to its common, its ratio of stock and surplus to capitalization rises to 49%; 2) that inclusion of a minority interest in Consumers would complicate the problem of integration-a problem irrelevant to the proceeding at hand...
Died. Clement Cresson Kite, 21, Yale senior, Philadelphia socialite, star for three seasons of Yale's hockey team; by his own hand (pistol); in Radnor...