Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business terms, but it is significant in terms of growth and the new directions the presses are taking. Starting with the first U.S. press at Cornell in 1869, university publishers long concerned themselves solely with faculty books too abstruse or too specialized for commercial publishers. For years, they plodded along producing the dusty and dull, expanded only when the "publish or perish" dictum started influencing a scholar's status. Even then, the growth was slow...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
...Leave Your Keys." The Chevy Division was bucking a problem most uncommon in Detroit: it had grown too conservative. Chugging along on what was basically a 1937 engine, the division was losing out to competition. Sales had slipped from 1,517,609 cars in 1950 to 871,503 in 1952. G.M. President Charlie Wilson grew worried, offered to give Chevy Boss Thomas Keating anything or anyone to pep up Chevy. Said Tom Keating: "I want Ed Cole." Red Curtice, then G.M.'s executive vice president, sent a hurry call to Cole, told him of his promotion to chief engineer...
Selassie into his capital of Addis Ababa, disobeying army orders and breaking regulations right and left along...
...Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. A tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast told in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...