Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall-rocking sing-off for the quartet Medalist prize. In Constitution Hall (dubbed Harmony Hall for the occasion) the big finals began with a Wichita, Kans. group called the Orphans. Dressed in blue tailored coats and pants and red bow ties, the quartet sang a smooth When the Bell in the Lighthouse Rings Ding, Dong. Next came the Lytle Brothers from Sharon...
With the golden land of opportunity no longer lay waiting in front of it, '29 fought desperately to make its own opportunities. Isaac Berman, now a manufacturer, was in quick succession a bell hop, A & P manager, magazine salesman, printing salesman, library book salesman, deck hand, and telephone directory salesman...
Edward C. Cumming '54 won the $400 Helen Choate Bell Prize for his essay "William Faulkner: Peasants and Snopeses." Honorable mention went to David M. Kalstone '54 for his paper "Henry James as Social Critic: The Final Vision." The Helen Choate Bell Prize is given "for merit in work in the field of American Literature...
...Grand Rapids last week, auto deallers heard some grim news from Admiral Frederick J. Bell, executive vice president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. In the last year, reported Bell, a total of 1,757 auto dealers have gone out of business in 40 states, and the number is growing each day. The main cause: auto bootlegging, by which some dealers sell new models to used-car dealers for resale below list price, thus undercutting the market...
Bootlegging has grown so serious that Bell's N.A.D.A. has asked the Justice Department in Washington to help stop it. But both Bell and the 47,184 U.S. new-car dealers know that it is more an effect than a cause. The real trouble is that automakers are producing more cars than dealers can sell. Even dealers in areas where bootlegging is unknown are having trouble clearing their showroom floors. Detroit, which has little bootlegging, has lost 30 dealers in the last year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone...