Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing work for a competitor. The company, now making only about 200 cars a day, gets an NPA steel allotment on the basis of its previous production of 1,400 a day. K-F is using its excess steel to turn out body components for General Motors' Fisher Body Division. Although K-F lost money in the first quarter, Boss Edgar Kaiser thinks that it will be in the black by year...
...VALLEY OF VISION (426 pp.)-Vardis Fisher-Abelard...
...Vardis Fisher's latest volume, the sixth in his ficto-stenographic history of civilization, is less a novel than a pedantic, prurient diatribe against one of the best-publicized kings Israel ever had. Solomon (loth Century B.C.) is presented as a sort of Old Testament Sammy Click with chin whiskers, a tough little opportunist who elbows his way into the big money, marries a glamour girl (Khate, an Egyptian princess), and hires a frustrated poet to ghost his copy-even, it would seem, such copy as the Book of Proverbs...
...many games, for the freshmen had a dismal season. Over 800 went to the pre-Yale game rally, but they weren't much help to the team, which suffered a 21-11 loss. The one bright spot in the sports picture was the fine record of Coach Jeff Fisher's varsity, which wound up a near-perfect season by beating Yale 10-3. Harvard's only loss, to Princeton, was the scene of some nasty rioting which strained the relations between the two schools. The Class of '26 was getting its first taste of football spirit...
Speaking in London, Dr. Geofrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and father of six sons, said: "The family of ten or twelve children is the only real kind of family." But in these days, said the archbishop, it is financially "beyond all possibility" for clergymen to enjoy such a privilege...