Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics: Says Humphrey: "I have been a supporter of Taft from the first time he ever ran for office." A lifelong Republican and a good friend of Ohio's bell-ringing G.O.P. Representative George Bender, Humphrey has been a quiet big-money-raiser for Bender's Ohio Republican organization, but only the leaders knew him. It was no politician who proposed him to Ike as Secretary of the Treasury. The man who did: General Lucius D. Clay (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. occupation forces in Europe, now board chairman of Continental Can Co. Clay met and admired Humphrey...
When scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories produced the first germanium transistor, they knew they had found a long-awaited short cut through the great glass jungle of the electronics age (TIME, Feb. 11). With the ease of the old-fashioned carborundum crystal, it can change alternating current to direct; and like a vacuum tube, it can amplify faint, fluctuating currents. But where the vacuum tube is often bulky, fragile and uses large amounts of power, the rugged little transistor, no bigger than a thumbnail, works on minute amounts of energy. Last week in Princeton, N.J., the Radio Corp...
...spite of Wall Street's bullishness, and the cheery figures behind it, there was more talk of impending recession last week than there had been in months. One of the loudest talkers was Elliott V. (for Valiance) Bell, editor & publisher of Business Week and former superintendent of banks in New York state. Bell, who was considered in line for Secretary of the Treasury if Dewey had won in 1948, took note of such things as tightening money rates, weakness in commodity prices, narrowing profit margins and the approaching peak in arms spending. Said he: "Whether the boom lasts...
Born. To Jo Stafford, 34, bell-voiced singer of radio and records, and Paul Weston, 40, orchestra leader: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Timothy John. Weight...
Only Ivy player to make-the first team was end Ed Bell of Pennsylvania, along with such standouts as tackle Dick Modzelewski and quarterback Jack Scarbath of Maryland...