Word: brewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper of the royal jewels. One man, Abdullah Balkhair, handled the press for the King as a sort of Jim Hagerty in sheik's clothing...
...lean six-footer, Ed Bronfman has been pushed ahead fast. He started with Seagrams as a teen-aged brewer and blender in Montreal, became his father's assistant after graduating with honors in history from McGill University in 1951. In 1955 he moved to Manhattan as chairman of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons' administrative committee...
Perry Como, in two holiday colorcasts (Dec. 22 and 29, 8 p.m., NBC), will engage, among others, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer. Red Buttons, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
...Falls, Ore., when prisoners sent their weekly orders for cigarettes, chocolate bars and magazines to a nearby store, Jailer Fred Calfee intercepted and rejected one list: 5 Ibs. of white rice, 1 large can of pineapple juice, 2 Ibs. of seedless raisins, 10 Ibs. of sugar, 2 cakes of brewer's yeast...
...estate of the late Walter O. Briggs Sr. for $5,500,000, with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch for the St. Louis Cardinals and ballpark in 1953.) For their money, Fred Knorr and his friends got an arguable bargain: a ball club with vague promise and an all too real position in the second division of the American League. But Fred Knorr...