Word: willson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college on "Contributions of Calvinism to American Democracy." The combination is engaging and makes sense; Only in America, Golden's book of clippings from the Israelite, sold 270,000 hard-cover copies, is still going strong, and is being fashioned into a musical by Meredith (The Music Man) Willson...
...College Louis B. Wright, historian, director Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. L.H.D. Meredith Willson, Broadway composer (Music Man) Mus.D...
...Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...
Bread & Butter. Speaking for the large majority of those who willingly shelled out, Musicman Meredith Willson (full-page picture, no name) explained: "I shudder to think of the hole in show-business life if there were no Variety. I know how much money I'm making in Denver, what hotel my people are staying in, when they are coming in where, how the competition is in New Haven, the ratings of my songs. My bread and butter is all right there, and this is my way of saying 'Thanks...
...gathering of jewelers and curiosity seekers crowded into a San Francisco salesroom, relentlessly bid down a 105-piece collection of gems (estimated value: $250,000) to a paltry $50,000. Previous owner of the baubles: the late France., Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Willson, pudgy nymphet bride at 15 (in 1926) of oddball Moneyman Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, then 51, who six months after their splashy nuptials shed her animal-fancying Daddy in the decade's most untidy divorce...