Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that I won't last. I told them...
...save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love millionaires; they are full of charm as well as dough," Actress Leigh announced happily that art-oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised to chip in. Last week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered and much-loved theater (where Charles Dickens first saw his plays produced). Then, with the broadminded blessing of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier ("Leigh often...
...Philippines, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen presented his credentials to President Carlos P. Garcia at Malacanan Palace, later chatted informally over cigarettes while the first rain after a long dry spell-an omen for the new ambassador's success-began to fall on Manila...
...corporations had to keep upping their bids for the available supply. The interest rate on top-quality utility bonds rose as high as 4.58%, while the cost on bonds that were rated a bit lower was as much as 4.68%. On some bonds the yields topped those of blue-chip stocks; Columbia Gas System's 5½% debentures were sold at a premium that made their yield 5.40%, while Georgia Power Co.'s 5¼% first-mortgage bonds had a yield...
...Roman family. Eventually it made its way to Switzerland, arrived in the U.S. seven or eight years ago. Detroit Director Edgar P. Richardson believed in the authenticity of the painting "from the first time I saw it," and persuaded a group of Detroit art patrons to chip in and buy it. Price: an estimated...