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Word: firming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Third Son | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Died. Saxe Commins, 66, senior editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Died. Fred T. Ley, 86, president of Fred T. Ley & Co., Manhattan real estate management firm, builder of the 1,046-ft., 77-story Chrysler Building, world's second tallest skyscraper; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...lawyer he could get from 2 to 3% of the total sale price when the business was sold," explained Witness Parker. "So naturally he would approve the deal." The hooker, of course, is that the promised sale almost never comes off. The deceptively worded contract promises only that the firm will try to sell the property through its advertising and sales promotional facilities, which usually turn out to be ads in cheap-rate newspapers, or a booklet listing properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: The Advance-Fee Game | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Reel McCoy. Near Hyannis, Mass., Surf Fisherman George Vasquez got a firm strike, braced for battle, slowly played his catch to shore, landed a live, 70-in., rubber-flippered male skindiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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