Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such ills as high blood pressure and heart disease that often accompany the businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth...
Actually there was little doubt about the nominees in next week's primary: Knowland had no opposition; Brown faced only an obscure San Francisco businessman; Clair Engle had a sharp edge over a 28-year-old Democratic unknown named Fritjof Peder Thygeson, and Goodie Knight would doubtless weather George Christopher's worst insults. But California candidates can crossfile, appear on both parties' ballots. All knew that next week's primary would 1) be an important popularity poll and 2) give some first answers to three burning questions...
...surprise observers by still being around on election day. and still a candidate, but no one expects him to win the presidency. Yet a few fissures are showing this spring in the glacial calm that has usually characterized Portugal in the past quarter-century. Said a middle-aged Lisbon businessman: "I've always supported Salazar because he brought us peace and quiet, and I like peace. But these elections are completely different. I think people are getting tired, not of Salazar, but of the other fellows in his government...
...Actor-Businessman William Holden, who handcuffed Columbia Pictures to what seemed a historically profitable contract for his part in The Bridge on the River Kwai, last week felt the contract's manacles snapping around his own wrists. Signing on for 10% of the gross, Holden, to keep taxes down, forced Columbia to add a clause providing payment in sums not exceeding $50,000 a year. So far, so shrewd-but Kwai has already grossed $8,500,000, is expected to end up with at least $25 million; 40-year-old Bill Holden will not be fully paid until...
...first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger. Suspended for ten days was the city's No. 1 agency, the combined Tyson Operating Co. and Sullivan Theatre Ticket Service. Out of a job was $40-a-week Clerk Theresa Hale, who extracted $10 from Businessman Philip Stogel for four tickets to Meredith Willson's cornfest, The Music...