Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...
...Madison Avenue could have sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum and acquaintance of top mobster Tony Accardo...
Joining LaRusso at forward will be rugged Gary Vandeweghe, a solid all-around performer. At center will be Dave Farnsworth, who matches the varsity's McClellan in size, and in the back-court will be two excellent veterans, stocky Walt Sosnowski and lean Chuck Kaufman, both averaging in double figures and playing first-rate defense...
Last week Chuck Medick began tuning up at local tournaments for the National Table Tennis Championships at Inglewood, Calif, in March, where he hopes to break his own record of scoring 54 matches at table tennis' biggest event. Medick's refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain the secret: "I just do something a blind man can do well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college...
...Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization ruled that the U.S. must accept B.L.H.'s lowest domestic bid of $1,757,210 for two hydraulic turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, chuck out the much lower bid of $1,450,700 by Britain's English Electric Co.. Ltd. Hearing the news, the British Foreign Office loudly protested, complained that it had obviously been "a waste of time" for English Electric to bid on the job in the first place. The British press joined in with an attack on U.S. trade policies...