Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curiously, 1961's most notable success stories were among companies which ranked well below the top ten. Impressive gains were reported by North American Aviation, which soared from 44th place up to 29th largely through increased sales of missile components and other electronic equipment; Singer Manufacturing, which rose from 86th to 77th by diversifying from sewing machines into other home appliances; and Newport News Shipbuilding, which advanced from 239th to 191st on the strength of Government orders for nuclear submarines. The high profitability of drugstore and door-to-door selling was clearly reflected by the companies with the highest...
...grey and drizzling last week as Moscow turned out to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only a few days after the panoply of the Party Congress, thousands of civilian demonstrators gathered in their assigned staging areas, huddling beneath banners, signs and floats. As crowds filled the bleacher seats on both sides of Red Square, the trim battalions of the Moscow garrison drew up across from the Mausoleum now solely occupied by Lenin...
...insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like Jean Kerr, another character is a fast shuffler of cliches: his recent de parture from Hollywood, explains the aging matinee idol, was an example of "the sinking ship leaving the rats." Like Jean Kerr, a third character is full of electric shock: "A lawyer," he says, "is never entirely...
...then a drama instructor at Washington's Catholic University, Walter Kerr had come from Evanston, 111., where at 13 he was a professional movie critic. Odd as it seems, the Attila of West 44th Street was known in those days as Wally. A carpenter's son, he began college at De Paul, had to withdraw during the Depression (he finished later at Northwestern). Kerr supported himself for two years by staging, directing and writing shows "for anyone who'd give me $25?the Y.M.C.A., the American Legion, church groups, anyone." When Jean came for a Christmas visit a few years...