Word: brewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irston Barnes, president of the Audubon Society of Washington, spied two Brewer's blackbirds, a species usually found in the West. A veteran hiker passed out information about how to survive on sumac berries and roots. Another hiker urged his fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named...
...Scholar. In East Orrington, Me., 22 years after he failed to graduate from Brewer High School because he had not written an assigned book report, Avery D. Olmstead Jr., 40, turned 'in the essay, got his diploma...
Brazil's energetic Finance Minister Oswaldo Aranha is a good friend of the U.S., but at the moment he is no friend of U.S. investments. Last week, in an interview with the New York Times's Sam Pope Brewer, Aranha made this abundantly clear. Brazil, Aranha explained, wants neither loans nor investments from abroad. Said he: "We have depended too much on outside aid. That's why we have not made more progress. We must learn to stand on our own feet." Foreign private capital, he said, has done Brazil more harm than good, and if foreign...
...Cleveland. Judge Joseph H. Silbert cited three Cleveland Press staffers for contempt of court. In defiance of Judge Silbert's order, the Scripps-Howard Press had taken and printed a picture of an arraignment. The photograph showed ex-Judge Nelson Brewer pleading not guilty to embezzlement charges brought against him by a grand jury after the Press had exposed Brewer's alleged misdeeds and forced his resignation from the bench (TIME, Aug. 3). In a front-page editorial, the Press defended its staffers for upholding the "right of the people to know." But President H. Walter Stewart...
Last week, pinned down between the Press and the Bar Association investigations of his conduct on and off the bench, the harassed judge made one more banner headline: BREWER QUITS BENCH AND BAR, WILL RESTORE $6,300 SHORTAGES. Reluctantly, Brewer admitted that he was unable after many years to "present records or recollect facts," concluded, "Clearly, I have been careless...