Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became assistant to the public-relations director of Chicago's fashion industry, in 1947 joined Glamour magazine, where she developed the accessories department and served as sportswear editor. In 1954 she moved to General Shoe's newly acquired I. Miller as fashion coordinator of the wholesale branch, next year was hired as general manager and vice president of Miller's retail operations by General Shoe Chairman W. Maxey Jarman, who was convinced that fashion rather than comfort sold women's shoes. Jerry Stutz showed such a fine eye for fashion that shoe sales rose...
...Last week the city council ordered the arrest of N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Joseph C. Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, was visiting in New York. Asked if she would return to Little Rock-and arrest-Daisy Bates seemed surprised. "That's my home," she said simply. "I live there." Thereupon she flew back, drove...
...press made the most of the story, revealed that Shult had already published highly technical papers now being used at Oak Ridge. Speedily the red-faced Army announced that it would reassign Smut to the Weapons Research Branch of the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Army Chemical Center, Maryland. Instead of 711 Clerk-Typist, Shult will now be tagged as 013 Mathematician...
From this prose Noah's ark aglut with fish and fowl, an olive branch of insight occasionally extends. The Old Man has a grave regional piety towards nature, and the Boy glows with a spontaneous, open-eyed wonder before it. The cycle of the seasons takes on a sensuous reality never suggested by the city-dweller's falling calendar leaves. But Author Ruark's major trouble is suggested by his title. Page after page of The Old Man and the Boy is mock-Hemingway in style and he-boy sentiments. Indeed, if Ernest Hemingway did not exist...
...most painful moments, and the first use of U.S. troops in a Southern racial crisis since Reconstruction days. Explained the President in a radio-TV speech to the nation: "The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the executive branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with all the means at the President's command. Unless the President did so, anarchy would result...