Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weddell Sea south of South America. The 900-mile trip through unknown territory to the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole was a stubborn battle against blizzards and crevasses. Fuchs reached the Pole three weeks late, got a solemn warning from New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who had come up from Scott Station after laying down supply depots. Hillary warned that the season was already too late, and that Fuchs had better fly out while flying was possible...
...Fairchild publications have felt at home in gingham ever since Edmund W. Fairchild bought a piece of a Chicago clothing trade paper in 1890. "Our Salvation Depends Upon Our Printing the News," is the admonishing slogan that hangs from the ceilings of Fairchild's twelve-story home office building just off lower Fifth Avenue. Over the years Edmund and his brother Louis founded five flourishing trade publications: Women's Wear Daily, Daily News Record (men's clothing industry; circ. 21,687), Men's Wear (a semimonthly for retailers; circ. 21,091), Home Furnishings Daily (circ...
...Black Record. Edmund died in 1949 and Louis in 1950. The company is now in the hands of Edmund's son Louis, president (and the father of the Paris bureau's John), and Louis' son Edgar, vice president. Modest and shy as their fathers, Louis, 56. and Edgar, 52, have added two more weeklies to their family's tidy empire: Supermarket News (49,499) and Electronic News (21,633). All but Electronic News, founded last year, are in the black...
White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
Author W. A. (Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...