Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...
...June 20, 1910, in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
Then, and for 34 years thereafter, Eleanor Alexander Roosevelt* was determined that her husband, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the ex-President's oldest son, should derive the deep strengths of the T.R. tradition from his father without being blotted out by it. "You know. Father," she said to T.R. one day at Sagamore Hill, "Ted has always worried for fear he would not be worthy of you." T.R. replied: "Worthy of me? I walk with my head higher because...
Poison Gas & the Y. It is this quality of a woman's pride in her husband, "cloaked inevitably and perpetually by the shadow of his father's fame," that lifts these meticulous, glittering reminiscences by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. into the category of memorable U.S. biography. Her book is dedicated to her belief that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944) is an undiscovered great American...
...Roosevelt himself, a small man, clean-shaven, weighing never more than 150 Ibs.. was himself determined to follow in his father's footsteps. Like T.R., he went to Harvard, and like T.R., he went to work roughing it-two years, starting as a $7-a-week millhand in a carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., two years as a bond salesman in Wall Street, whose leaders hated his father. Like T.R., he joined the Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division...