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ROBERT L. BALLANTYNE Milton...
Many actors sculpt their real names. Ethel Zimmerman clipped off the zim. Vivien Hartley lost her hart. James Baumgarner dropped the baum. Grace Stanfield is now Gracie Fields. Uncle Miltie was once Milton Berlinger. One letter made the difference for Dorothy Lambour. First names have a habit of turning into surnames. Benny Kubelsky changed his name to Jack Benny, Muni Weisenfreund to Paul Muni, Preston Meservey to Robert Preston...
...Guns of Navarone) Irving Rubine, and Millionaire Realtor Arnold Kirkeby, former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels.† Ironically, 17 passengers had transferred to American One at the last moment, when a United Air Lines flight was canceled. So shattered were the bodies that Chief Medical Examiner Milton Helpern ruled out visual identification by relatives as "inhumane," set out to distinguish them by fingerprints and other means...
During that convalescence, Mrs. Williams read to him constantly: "We used up all the children's books, and I had to turn to Scott, Thackeray, Dickens." Tom's grandfather, who knew Milton's Paradise Lost by heart, recited poetry to him. "Grandfather was crazy about Poe. He was interested in the macabre," says Williams...
...critics who cry "company town," Hershey executives reply that Milton Hershey's creation-with its broad green lawns, absence of slums, and sports events sponsored by the Hershey estate-"may well be the best town in America for raising kids." And to candy fanciers who do not find Hershey's chocolate quite as tasty as the costlier Swiss and Dutch imports. Chairman Hinkle has a businessman's answer: "In one sense, the best chocolate is the chocolate that sells best...