Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gruber now sniffs a new trend. Last week Lorillard began test-marketing a cork-tipped, cigarette-sized cigar in a flip-top box. Price: 35? for a pack...
...stage lights of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall glared down last week on a frail little man whose cork-tipped baton at first seemed to wave in a rhythm unconnected with the New York Philharmonic's. But after a brief edginess in the opening work, he drove the Philharmonic through Ralph Vaughan Williams' bubbling Symphony No. 8 and made the music chortle, brag, sneer and guffaw with Falstaffian humor in a sheer triumph of spirit. At the end, the audience gave him as warm an ovation as has been heard in Carnegie this year. After 15 years...
Dorado Beach has 136 rooms in nine two-story beach houses. Rooms start at $45 daily, sleeping cabanas at $35. Guests get breakfast, dinner, two miles of reef and beach, 1,250 acres planted largely to flowers and specimen trees, three cork-topped tennis courts. They also get an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones and supervised by Ed Dudley, formerly President Eisenhower's pro at the Augusta National. Surfaced in a fine-strained Bermuda grass, the course winds along 7,110 yards of lake, coconut grove, ocean, ends at a Spanish-colonial mansion remodeled into...
...hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...Frederick Harold Cook, 43, was elected president and chief executive officer of Congoleum-Nairn, second biggest U.S. manufacturer (first: Armstrong Cork) of smooth-surface floor coverings, succeeding F. J. Andre, 59, who moved up to chairman. A salesman in the floor-covering industry since his graduation from Indiana University ('36), Cook joined Congoleum-Nairn in 1955 as a vice president in charge of sales just when sales and profits were turning down (deficit for the first nine months of this year: $1,964,720 v. $107,222 for the same period in 1957). Said Cook...