Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he had well warmed Lever Brothers' presidential chair (TIME, June 10), Charles ("Chuck") Luckman sat down hard on the firm's $7,274,503 radio budget. Off the air went Lifebuoy's "Bazooka Bob" Burns and Rinso's soft-soap opera, Big Sister. Last week Luckman made an economy-size substitution: Fighting Senator, a sort of Lone Ranger with social significance...
...dive and coil menacingly and generally rule most of that part of the room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...
Juan Domingo Perón was still sitting firmly in his presidential chair. But the Perónist hue & cry over the Bolivian upset supported U.S. State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...
...Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...
...Ratchford recalled the sage advice given him by the late Roger Bigelow Merriam, original Eliot House Master. "Ratchford," Merriam declared, "the way to get to be a full professor here is to stay around the College. If you're here long enough, you're bound to get an endowed chair." So Ratchford heeded the tip, and began to wait hopefully for the inevitable day. He's still bucking for section...