Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hymns & Games. When Percy graduated in 1941, a fulltime job was waiting for him at Bell & Howell. Joe McNabb put him in charge of the company's newborn defense-contracts department. Two years later Chuck joined the Navy, where his business experience led to a post in procurement operations...
During his three-year Navy career, Percy married Jeanne Dickerson, daughter of a Chicago plumbing contractor. They had three children-twin girls and a boy. Percy meanwhile had returned to Bell & Howell, become McNabb's right-hand man and been named to the board of directors-at 23. In 1947 Jeanne, who was not a Christian Scientist, underwent an operation for ulcerative colitis that was deemed successful. Still, her doctors recommended a second operation. This one brought on complications. Jeanne was given penicillin, to which she suffered adverse reactions. Other drugs were tried, but to no avail. After...
...allergic to the sun, terrified of snakes and never met an elephant she couldn't do without, but Jenny Bell Bechtel came home from her first safari with big game under her belt and a blazing career...
...around Nairobi to trap her trophies but found them already wrapped, breast-high, around the ladies in the mud huts. To them, the kikoi was only a brightly colored piece of cloth, good enough to wear to market, but nothing a native would get restless about. Stunning, thought Jenny Bell, and bought some, intending to turn them into tablecloths. But back in Manhattan, she realized that the Kenya hutwives had been right all along: the kikois were dashing as dresses. She ran up a few tentative models, found the response so enthusiastic that she ran up a few more. Lord...
Bright Future. Steinberg is also a vigorous fund raiser and public relations man, once promoted a concert by donning a fireman's helmet and red suspenders to tear around town on a fire engine, gaily clanging the fire bell. As a result, the Pittsburgh Symphony today enjoys a 30-week season, a budget of nearly $1,000,000, and a base of community support so broad that there has been some talk of rechristening it the Tri-State Symphony. Prospects for the future are exceptionally bright, thanks to a grant of $5,000,000 from Heinz and Mellon funds...