Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets...
...Reached the Body. What was the cause of it all? Nobody is sure. "Frank was the first great bedroom singer of modern times," says a nightclub columnist. "He was the first singer to reach the-er-great body of American women." Frank disagrees. "I don't really think it was sex," he says, and many psychiatrists agree. "Mammary hyperesthesia," muttered one. Sinatra's voice, said another doctor, was in the early days "an authentic cry of starvation." Far from least, there was the late George Evans, Sinatra's pressagent, who more than any man helped to pull...
Once a week the President has break fast with Vice President Richard Nixon, for whose political judgment he has a high regard. The man who is closest to the President has no title in the Administration: he is Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University. Young er (55) brother Milton fills the President's need for a trusted confidant outside the Administration with whom he can discuss almost any issue or policy...
...laurels must go to Simon, who was in perfect voice, with ne'er a hint of a rough-edged tone. His diction, in four languages, was always impeccably clear. I was particularly impressed by his singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald v. Wolkenstein's Der May. The last is one of the oldest descriptive pieces, wherein the calls of many birds are imitated at great speed, in the manner of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song...
Tennessee. The nation's youngest (34) governor, Frank Clement,* a onetime FBI agent and part-time lay preacher, ran up a good record in his first two years and has a good program ready for his new four-year term. Spellbinding Corn-Shuck-er Clement, re-elected with the state's biggest vote, hopes for a chance to make the keynote speech at the 1956 Democratic convention. He figures he can talk himself into the vice-presidency, at least...