Word: duns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss. Neither he nor the building looks the part-nor, for that matter, does the Star look much like the usual daily newspaper. Roberts is rumpled and jowly, the very image of a ward politician-a role he loves to play. The building, a three-story pile of dun brick veneered with half a century's grime, looks more like a police station than a newspaper office. The Star's front page, a somber, forbidding block of type only faintly relieved by narrow headlines and a picture or two, has all the eye appeal of Webster...
...Festival of Seven Lessons and Carols (NBC, 10-11 a.m.). From Washington National Cathedral come Scripture and readings and carols, presided over by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington, and Dr. Francis B. Sayre, dean of the cathedral...
...typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...
...MILLION STOCKHOLDERS in U.S. businesses are predicted for 1970 by J. Wilson Newman, president of Dun & Bradstreet, compared to 12.5 million stockholders at present...
...newsmen who asked him for some words of wisdom for New Delhi's schoolchildren, he replied, "A birthday message? That sounds very pompous." Then, accepting a last garland of flowers from a little girl, Nehru got into his plane and was off to the hill resort of Dehra Dun to spend a relaxed weekend with his grandchildren...