Word: bronwen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every person in the army, male and female, is given extensive training in the field of his or her specialty. This training ranges from the simple (a six-week clerical course, for example) to the complex (training in medical technology that takes almost a year). Whatever training Sgt. Bronwen had received had obviously been thorough and complete. She knew the key phrase for dealings with the press and she knew when to use it: "Miss Bennett, do you mind if I sit in on this interview...
Instead, silent and dutiful, Sgt. Bronwen followed in my footsteps, a sheepdog in army clothing, her sergeants' stripes shining in the eyes of trainees I tried to interview. The army must have felt particularly sensitive that week: The first stop on the five-page, single-spaced typed itinerary of the visit of A. Bennett, Reporter, was WAC center information office where we picked up two more people to follow me. Specialist Joe Burke, information specialist for WAC center, watched Sgt. Bronwen, information specialist for Fort McClellan, who watched me. And Sgt. Laura Hurlbut, senior in rank to both of them...
...Sgts. Bronwen and Hurlbut exchanged glances. "We'll have to arrange that," Sgt. Bronwen said. "We'd better go, we'll be late for our first appointment," Sgt. Hurlbut said...
MOST men and women standing at a bar have the option of staring at the rows of bottles stacked behind it or craning to watch a TV set in a dim corner. Now Bronwen Corp., a brokerage house in Washington, D.C., has opened a restaurant called the Exchange, where a dedicated drinker can down his martini while watching stock market quotations flicker past his eyes on an 8-ft.-wide illuminated Ultronic Systems quote board in back of the bar. Says Harry Hagerty, one of three young partners in Bronwen: "I've always felt that the man interested...
...While Bronwen tries to launch its ticker-restaurant franchise, Trans-Lux Corp., a manufacturer of ticker display units, has been signing up nonbrokerage-house locations all over North America. Quote boards were recently installed in the cocktail lounge of the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto and in the lobby of a new office building in Washington's Watergate complex, a development where many Administration officials live. The board was put in by the Watergate management to attract brokerage-house tenants, but they are few. On one recent day, the only tape watchers were two caged red parrots that...