Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will depend on the weather; if September brings Newport rain and fog, or hurricane weather, the President will pack up for warm, balmy Gettysburg in short order. Moreover, the Middle East situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants to be in Washington or close by. At week's end, just in time for vacation, Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to bring home Mamie, now convalescent after her hysterectomy three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 19). In a navy blue dress with white trim and a white hat, Mrs. Eisenhower, still somewhat shaky...
...series of jobs, most of them part-time, until at 18 he hoisted himself into steady work in Detroit with the Kroger grocery chain. The job: unloading boxcars at 32? an hour. Jimmy and his co-workers got paid only for actual hours worked, though they had to stay close by the loading platforms for 12 to 15 hours a day. In 1932 Jimmy organized a strike. Gathering a six-man committee, he made his demands on the management just as a carload of strawberries and cantaloupes arrived at the warehouse. The company, faced with imminent spoilage of the fruit...
...That Bob Kennedy is a doll," wrote a Washington housewife last week as the Du Mont-televised labor rackets hearings came to a close (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Since the Senate's modern 18-day morality play began, Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. has been bombarded with 10,000 such letters and thousands of phone calls. Three people twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair...
...October. Reason: while mounting costs force every other line to plug, for fare increases, Icelandic's rates are some $100 cheaper than those of its competitors, have pushed the lean little line from 400 passengers in 1952 to an expected 30,000 this year, with revenues of close to $6,000,000. up some 25% from last year...
Next day the Braves lost a close one, 3-2. But in the rubber game they ran through eight Dodger pitchers and collected 13 hits (including four home runs) to win another for Burdette, 13-7-proof positive that they have finally buried their fainthearted, four-year habit of folding in the stretch...