Word: tobaccoman
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...like to call London's 15-year-old Sadler's Wells company the National Ballet, and take pride in the fact that it owes little to the Russians. Margot Fonteyn is, in a complicated way, English. She was brought up in Shanghai, the daughter of an English tobaccoman named Hookham and a Mexican mother from whom she inherited an exotically high-cheeked face. She joined Sadler's Wells at 14. Two years later Fonteyn's arabesques appealed to the patriotism of the Morning Post: "Here, at last, is an English girl who dances with her soul...
...Jesse Jones's millions) gave the U.S. a second aluminum producer. Less well known is the fact that there are just about as many Reynoldses in Reynolds Metals as there ever were Mellons in Alcoa. The company as a whole revolves around tiny Richard Samuel Reynolds, 61, ex-tobaccoman (Camels). But most of its parts are specifically managed by R.S.'s four sons...
...Talked with John Winant, generally considered his selection as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. (From London came advance reports that King George VI and the British Government had approved Mr. Winant; from Washington came flat declarations that Tobaccoman S. Clay Williams would accompany him as the U. S. Minister to Britain...
...Tobaccoman Hill those were fighting words. Out last week was his 1939 annual report showing profits of $26,427,934-best since 1933, though 43% under phenomenal 1931. Of that sum, $300,300 went to Mr. Hill (salary: $120,000), $180,180 to each of his four current vice presidents (salaries: $50,000 apiece) as bonuses...
...Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...