Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
...Army selection board tapped for future promotion to lieutenant colonel Major John Eisenhower, currently helping out Dad as assistant to the White House staff secretary...
...Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...
Discarding its usual veil of silence, the staid Federal Reserve Board last week issued its harshest criticism of U.S. price-boosting heard in recent years. Up before the Senate antitrust subcommittee stepped the Fed's research director, Ralph A. Young, with the charge that industry's price hikes-notably in autos and steel-cut demand and employment even further during the recession. Industry, he said, "needs to use more often the time-tested prescription of lower prices as a cure for inadequate demand and to resort less to appeals to Government...
Outside the Washington offices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...