Word: david
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another company, Du Pont pays for the worker's diagnosis and early treatment in an outside alcoholism clinic. But how does the company spot the man who needs treatment? Answered Du Font's Alcoholism Advisor David Meharg, himself a member of Alcoholics Anonymous: "When a man-or woman-stops bragging about how much he can drink and begins sneaking and lying about it, that's when he is an alcoholic...
Split Coming. Almost as suddenly as it arose, the San Francisco Renaissance split. Still and Rothko departed for the East Coast. Dean of those who remained was Boston-born David Park, and in 1951 he abruptly turned his back on abstract expressionism and won an award in the San Francisco Annual for a painting, Boys on Bicycles, in which the boys were boys, and the wheels were round. "As you grow older," Park said, "it dawns on you that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want...
...David v. Goliath. In daring to challenge Goliath IBM, Callies and Vieillard know that they are still in point of present gross (estimated for this year at $35 million) a pretty small David. But they count on the fact that they are showing a fast sales-growth rate. Annually since 1946, their exports have risen 25%. Last year they shipped $18 million worth of equipment to customers in 42 countries. Of that, $9,000,000 went to countries in the dollar area...
...Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Music and dancing by the team that put the sparkle into last year's award-winning show: Astaire, Barrie Chase, the Jonah Jones Quartet, David Rose and his orchestra, and Producer-Director Bud Yorkin. Color...
According to fireman John Lally, the conflagration was caused by a cigar butt left on the sofa. David N. Owen '61, a neighbor of the damaged suite, said he had smelled smoke for half an hour before turning in the alarm, but his roommates convinced him "it was only stale pretzels." Occupants of the I-43 suite were absent at the time...