Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon in Cincinnati this week, the National Conference of Christians and Jews paid a signal honor to one of the country's longest working columnists. The newsman: Alfred M. Segal, 71, who was celebrating half a century on the Scripps-Howard's Cincinnati Post (circ. 167,260) and 34 years as a columnist. Read the special citation: "[Segal's] writings and his personal life . . . have been the ideals and aims of the National Conference of Christians and Jews." Back in the Post's city room. Editor Dick Thornburg and his staffers had another way of saying...
Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...
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...Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became a salesman, and rose to be general merchandising manager. He expects to boost 1954 sales of nearly $10 million by 20% by being "a lot more aggressive." ¶ Edward H. Weitzen. 35, was elected president of Cincinnati's Gruen Watch Co., succeeding Morris Edwards, who resigned. A graduate of City College of New York ('38), Weitzen worked for a Manhattan ad agency, the Journal of Commerce. He became a buck private in 1942, was soon commissioned, rose to lieutenant colonel at 26. He joined Bulova...
...other six regional centers will be built at Peabody, Mass, (near Boston), Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Levittown, Pa., Houston, and somewhere on Long Island. Allied will finance a fourth of the centers (including Bergen Mall), expects that insurance companies and local realtors will furnish capital for the others. To help pay for its part in the huge venture, Allied last week asked the Securities & Exchange Commission's permission to issue some $16.5 million worth of common stock (300,000 shares...