Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until the 18th hole in the final round of the U.S. Golf Association's women's open did California's Mickey Wright, 23, admit to herself that she had a chance to win. Then she flubbed her approach shot and had to settle for a par. But she was still right where she had been all through the tournament-far in front. She finished five strokes ahead of Georgia's Louise Suggs, became the first woman ever to win the pro and open titles in the same season...
...normally a William Saroyan fan, but I have to admit that he has outdone himself in writing The Cave Dwellers, which enjoyed a good run in New York this season. The play is a semi-realistic allegorical fantasy--sunny, warm and moving, especially in the second...
...Chairman Harris who put another dimension on Adams' calls to the regulatory agencies by getting Adams to admit that he had quite a bit to do with the selection of appointees; he had, for one thing, recommended Ed Howrey for the FTC. Adams clasped his hands, unclasped them, gripped them again as they trembled. He pressed his chin into his fists, dueled...
...commercial production. Says Westinghouse: "Color is apparently not enough of a novelty to sell." Philco, DuMont and General Electric are at work trying to develop a simplified "one-gun" tube that would be cheaper and produce a better picture than RCA's "three-gun" shadow-mask tube, but admit that success is not yet in sight...
...promotion drive is long overdue. As in the automobile business, salesmen have become order takers waiting for customers to come in; seldom have they gone out and solicited the most likely customers-newlyweds, new parents, new homeowners. Yet furniture men are the first to admit that promotion alone is not enough. The real remedy for the industry's ailments is to produce better-styled, lower-priced furniture. Kroehler recently brought out a medium-priced line (see cut) that follows the new trend of matching pieces for all rooms, and it is selling well. With it, a family can furnish...