Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia having a jolly good time accepting bridges, harbors and schools from a dozen nations East and West. This week he talks about credit buying in the U.S. and TV commercials abroad. Often pointing up issues but never preaching, the program is at best as sharp as an ax, but it seldom grinds one. "Brinkley's not out to save the world." says Producer Ted Yates. "He's just out to be Brinkley...
...Southwest Conference, every game is a grudge match. Private Rice carries a finely honed ax for public Texas. Fort Worth's Texas Christian nurses a traditional, geographic hatred of Dallas' Southern Methodist, and the two state schools-Texas and Texas A. & M. -have been slugging it out since 1894. But some of the wildest moments in conference history have been produced by the rivalry between Baptist Baylor and Methodist S.M.U. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles was an assistant at Baylor in 1947, assigned to the spotting phone in the press box during the S.M.U. game. A few minutes before...
...proliferation in terms that make any economic sense. The magazine field is littered with the bones of recent giants: Collier's (d. 1957 with 4,165,000 circulation), Woman's Home Companion (4,225,000 when it died by the same stroke of the Crowell-Collier ax), Country Gentleman (which perished in 1955 with 2,566,000 circulation). Only last month, Esquire administered the coup de grâce to its sister publication, Coronet, which had a paid circulation of 3,122,628. Some of the newcomers have begun to die off too: The American Gun perished this...
More with Less. Russell's greatest here-and-now contribution to railroading is his ax-swinging intolerance of any custom that wastes money. "We don't take anything for granted," he says. "We have to go back over everything and ask why we did it in the first place...
...Long Island, where "family life festered incurably at the heart of our home." At one point. Chambers' father deserted his wife and two sons and sent them an allowance of only $8 a week. Chambers' mother developed a fear of prowlers, and took to sleeping with an ax under her bed. Chambers himself was soon tucking a knife under his pillow. Chambers' brother became an alcoholic, and killed himself by drinking a quart of whisky and cushioning his head on a pillow inside an oven...