Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia (S.C.) THE STATE...
...moved to give its scientific forces more brains and more prestige. From Gettysburg came the announcement that the Science Advisory Committee, heretofore an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization, will move its offices directly into the White House. At the same time, the committee of twelve, headed by Columbia Physicist Isidor Rabi, will take on five new members...
...There was never any dramatic sign that this C.V.A. was taking place. The President could not tell just when he had his stroke. Neither could the four neurologists who examined him next day-Georgetown University's Francis M. Forster, the Army's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen, Columbia University's Houston H. Merritt and James F. Hammill-though they confirmed the findings of Ike's regular doctors. As for treatment, all they could advise was wait and see, combined with a stress-free routine. They prescribed plenty of rest for Ike, but not the total inertia...
EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice...
...stock, Joe Cullman graduated from Yale ('35), worked as a $15-a-week cigar-store clerk and a cigar maker in Cuba before joining Webster Tobacco Co., where he became Eastern sales manager in 1938. After four years in the Navy during World War II, he went to Columbia University with the idea of becoming a history professor, instead joined Benson & Hedges as vice president under his father, whose company controlled Benson & Hedges, helped boost sales of Parliaments from 100 million yearly in 1946 to 2.2 billion in 1954. On Cullman's recommendation, Philip Morris invested...