Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and best of American still-life painters was honored with his first one-man show, 134 years after his death in 1825. The exhibition, at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries this week, afforded a 38-picture survey of Raphaelle Peale, the troubled son of a great father...
...police and the FBI. In Detroit authorities learned that "Harry Valk" was Harry H. Balk, a shadowy freelance booking agent who had not only collected the prize money wired from Portland but had won $4,400 on his own last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe a committee witness by guaranteeing to fix a win for him in a newspaper puzzle contest...
...Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper Guild strike, Sam Newhouse made an unusual deal with the rival P-D that should strengthen the pocketbooks of both papers...
Busy as a one-man combo, the teetotaling Gleason writes four columns a week on jazz and records for the San Francisco Chronicle (circ. 225,429), edits a magazine he helped found last year named Jazz-A Quarterly of American Music (circ. 5,000), and tosses off such extra projects as organizing jazz TV programs and festivals. His 1958 book, Jam Session, has sold 5,000 copies, is now in a British edition. Last year Gleason became the nation's first syndicated jazz columnist, now sounds off weekly in 15 papers from the Los Angeles Mirror-News...
...Josephine Bay, 58, largest stockholder in American Export Lines and chief of its executive committee, was named chairman of the board, succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping...