Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return to his alma mater as its first Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, a chair that was set up to enliven the undergraduate intellectual fare by giving an especially distinguished scholar a "roving commission" to explore and teach as freely as he wants...
...Amasa B. Ford and Herman K. Hellerstein of Cleveland's Western Reserve University noted that by far the most strenuous of all human activity is "play" -carried to the extreme of championship athletics. When energy expenditure is measured by the rate of calorie consumption, a distance runner or skier can burn up 26.5 calories per minute; healthy young men at amateur sports can work up to a fuel consumption of 18 calories per minute. The heaviest rates for steady work have been reported for coal miners as ranging from 4.3 to 5 calories per minute...
Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...
...Strung Up. The people like Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual...
Earlier, Raymond A. Bauer, M.I.T. social psychologist, was appointed Ford Foundation Visiting Professor for 1957-59. An authority on Soviet psychology, he had also been studying business attitudes toward foreign trade...