Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British public school named Repton (465 students) seems to be a stepping stone to the primacy of the Church of England. The last two Archbishops of Canterbury (William Temple and Geoffrey Francis Fisher) have been former headmasters of Repton. Last week Queen Elizabeth II named an old Reptonian to succeed the late Cyril Forster Garbett as Archbishop of York...
Died. Ham (Hammond Edward) Fisher, 54, creator of the comic strip Joe Palooka; by his own hand, in Manhattan...
...traded punches in the endless audience-rating war. According to last week's Trendex figures, NBC's Perry Como edged out Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners, 26.5 to 25.7, while CBS's 90-minute Eddie Fisher show walloped NBC's George Gobel...
...nation today than volumes of statistics. To begin with, the tricked-up Buick of the highest-salaried man in the U.S. is hardly noticeable among the bright new Buicks and Chevrolets along Flint's main streets. Flint is the home of the main Buick and Chevrolet plants, the Fisher Body, AC Spark Plug and Ternstedt Divisions (G.M. auto hardware...
Died. Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber, 89, mother of The New Yorker Humorist James Thurber and subject of his essay Lavender with a Difference: "Lavender and old lace ... are not for Mary Thurber. It would be hard for me to say what it is ... She never wears black . . . 'Black is for old ladies,' she told me . . . not long ago"; in Columbus, Ohio...