Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Stephen meets and sleeps with Jane Armstrong, an all-American girl whose golden skin "you almost never see except on the bodies of idealized nudes on semipornographic wall calendars," First Wife Elizabeth accommodatingly dies of a heart attack. But the strain of living with a growing boy in turn proves too much for Second Wife Jane, and she takes to the Hollywood doll house...
...city room of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), nothing stirs up a storm faster than a half-told story. Three years ago Veteran City Editor Sam Armstrong got just such an incomplete story from the wire services. The Air Force, said the story, had received no acceptable bids on an $11 million construction job for nearby Scott Air Force Base, although similar work was going ahead on air bases all over...
...story did not explain why no builder could do the job in the St. Louis area, so Armstrong assigned P-D Reporter Carl Baldwin, 45, to find out. Baldwin, a P-D staffer for 23 years, quickly found the reason: "St. Louis [had] become the capital of labor rackets in the construction industry...
...Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened up the secret places of the heart...
...Reserve Board Governor A. L. Mills Jr. and Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor both saw increasing signs of an early business upturn. "The gloomy ones may well be caught out in the sunshine with their umbrellas and overshoes on," said Teetor. Though two private economists, Walter E. Hoadley of Armstrong Cork Co. and Dr. Courtney Brown of Columbia University, saw no such sign of a swift upturn, neither could they see any signs of an oncoming bust. The gentle slide, they thought, had just about hit bottom...