Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOSTON CLUB CIRCLES : Here's to dear old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Kennedys always get caviar And the McCormacks only get scrod...
...less prestigious job, complaining wearily, 'I didn't think I could stand it another minute." Paul Davies was only 28. but already vice president of a San Francisco bank, when he signed on in 1928 as financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines...
...thought you would like to know how much I enjoyed the article on Coleman Hawkins [Aug. 31], the elder-statesman saxophone player. Though he has been playing tenor for nearly 40 years, "Bean" has always kept up with the youngsters as well as his contemporaries. I cannot recall a time in his long career when he could honestly be accused of "saxual senility...
Their leaders are ingratiating bean brains. Major Richardson (David Niven) is a swaggerstick-thin Colonel Blimp. Captain Blasi (Italy's Alberto Sordi) is a soulful doleful duce. Each spends most of his time taking miscalculated risks and falling into the other's hands. Niven falls first, when his plane crashes...
...bureau's agents work under cover, infiltrate gangs, even act as couriers between criminals. Often they have to shoot it out with narcotics racketeers. They have to watch for dope in some of the most unlikely places-hidden in compartments of imported cars, in ice bags, cans of bean sprouts, jewelry cases, the brassieres of airline hostesses. Only last week, narcotics cops in Manhattan arrested a woman pusher who was sitting on a park bench, rocking her baby in a carriage. Under the baby's mattress was a supply of heroin that the pusher was selling to customers...