Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, testified witnesses, Lormar offered certain competitive advantages. While other distributors sold top-label records for 65? apiece, Lormar offered a cut rate of 55?. Eventually buyers discovered that the records had been pirated from genuine big-name platters and counterfeited in Cincinnati down to the color and code numbers of the label. Top hit on the counterfeit parade: You Can Make It If You Try, with 86,000 bogus copies in circulation...
...company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move...
...much of her life, 45-year-old Virginia Pleasants, an Ohio-born graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, was a modest and unassuming concert pianist. Her careful, reflective playing of 18th century music was well received in Europe, but Pianist Pleasants' lack of temperament and color made her unsuited to the more popular romantics. Then her husband played a hunch. Henry Pleasants, onetime music critic for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and since 1952 a Foreign Service officer in Austria and Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds...
...Dame despite a winning career record (32-18), turned his back on a clutch of other college offers, announced at a testimonial dinner in Chicago that he was joining the investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co. Brennan, 30, will also run a player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since...
Lord of this happy domain is Bold Venture's producer, Cincinnati's Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (runners-up: CBS Films Inc., MCA-TV, Ltd.). Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs...