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Word: barreness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Juanita Dale Phillips (Candy Barr), 24, Las Vegas stripteaser sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics conviction, whose unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court appeal was financed by Mickey Cohen; and Jack Sahakian, 28, Los Angeles beauty-salon operator; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rehash of one of the Western world's most disastrous defeats in the East, The Fall of China to the Communists in 1949. Pearl Buck, General Albert Wedemeyer and General David Barr are on hand to assist Narrator Walter Cronkite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

SOME stockholders grumble that Barr has spent so much on expansion that earnings have suffered (they dropped below 1957 in 1958). But Barr argues that money spent now will bring benefits in higher profits later. The rise has started. Earnings in the first half this year jumped to $10.6 million from $8.6 million last year. In the next five years, Barr plans to spend $500 million on expansion. By 1963 he expects sales to be running at $1.8 or $2 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: JOHN ANDREW BARR | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Trained in the law at Indiana University ('30), Barr joined Ward's legal staff in 1933, proved his skill by helping to prepare the case that eventually voided President Roosevelt's seizure of Ward's during a 1944 labor dispute and masterminding the successful proxy battle against Raider Louis Wolfson in 1955. Barr still admires his old boss, refuses to criticize him. Says he: "He was one of the nation's best merchandisers. He grew old, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: JOHN ANDREW BARR | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Barr's transformation has also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: JOHN ANDREW BARR | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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