Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
...awake in his sleeper berth, a New England businessman pondered the problem of reconciling his business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...
Maurice C. Smith Jr., community-minded president of the Bristol Manufacturing Co. (sneakers and rubber stamps), liked the sound of brother Bill's idea. Last week he announced the appointment of the Rev. Dale B. Button, pastor of Providence's Central Baptist Church, as "Vice President in charge of Christian Relations...
...with a salary backed by an expense account which may run to $100,000 a year) will not be just another "industrial chaplain." Bristol employees may consult him on spiritual matters, but his chief duty will be outside the plant, "to do good...
...neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded, 5 ft.-7 in. frame was a bit bulky for ballet, and realizing, as she now says, that "this [indicating her face] was the only thing...