Word: emmette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forth in a letter sent last week to three Washington newspapers. "What I saw at the District of Columbia Stadium," he said, "easily could have duplicated what I saw covering the Little Rock school desegregation case, or the bus station mob during the Freedom Rides to Birmingham, or the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. The difference, ironically, was that the predominant number of offenders were Negro. The explosion of hate stemmed mostly from my own people...
...Robert Emmett Lusk. chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Benton & Bowles...
This remarkable finding, which runs directly counter to what every mother has ''known'' since babies were first fed a substitute for human breast milk, was reported last week by one of the most eminent of U.S. pediatricians, New York University's Dr. L. Emmett Holt Jr. Four years ago, Dr. John P. Gibson of Abilene, Texas, had come to a similar conclusion, from studying 150 normal, full-term babies. He got the idea from mothers who had forgotten to warm a bottle. Dr. Holt figured that he could put the idea to the acid test...
...handsomely furnished Fifth Avenue eyrie, Robert Emmett Lusk, 60, chairman of Benton & Bowles, is fighting to reverse a trend. Alone among the nation's top ten agencies, B. & B. last year suffered a loss in billings (from $120 million to $116 million). Lusk's answer has been a campaign to expand his agency from a specialist in advertising low-priced packaged goods to a general-purpose agency by lining up such accounts as Western Union and Mutual of New York. Lusk, a Connecticut machinist's son who worked his way through Yale ('23), rose...
Under the apprehensive eye of a more practiced Pagliacci, Emmett Kelly, 63, Novice Clown Debbie Reynolds, 30, went through her droopy-trousered paces at a Los Angeles premiere of the International Super Circus. Other show business talents ranging from Sammy Davis Jr. to Jayne Mansfield also donated their services to the benefit performance in support of a cause peculiarly appropriate for Hollywood: a clinic for emotionally disturbed children...