Word: craige
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order and carry it out. The doctors decided to move Congrave from St. Luke's Hospital to Craig Colony, a nearby rehabilitation center. There a battery of therapists went to work on him, trying to retrain him, starting almost at the infant level, in speech, feeding and self-care...
SOUTHERN BELLE (407 pp.) - Mary Craig Sinclair-Crown...
...Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 74, is probably the only woman still living in the U.S. who can claim to have been described as "svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with...
...heart of Yankeeland, where Mary Craig Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick...
...Grey Flannels. The Revlon account had hit $6,000,000 when Revson last year abandoned Norman, Craig & Kummel, badly rocking the agency (1956 billings: $25.8 .million). Before he shifted completely to BBDO, fourth-biggest agency (1956 billings: $194.5 million), Revson took the precaution of siphoning off part of his business to three smaller firms. But the big problems flowed into BBDO along with Revson. The biggest was the fact that Client Revson demanded top-quality advertising and simply worked too hard for the admen to keep up. The weary admen began agreeing with Revson's bad ideas as well...