Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story on Rockefeller read like the officially approved biographies of Henry Ford and Mary Baker Eddy. TIME used to be an organ of sharp, witty criticism rather than a cliche-ridden apologist for a spiked version of the American Dream...
...plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson and Hodges), got rid of starting Pitcher Whitey Ford in the third inning, tormented Relievers Kucks, Morgan and Turley, and won easily...
...Third Game brought the Yankees home to their own stadium, and they came to life. Ford was back on the mound; this time his curves were snapping off sharply and his fast ball was really running. While Whitey's good left arm held the Dodgers helpless, Slaughter pounded them to death with his bat. Old Enos began the game with a series batting average of .556; by the end of the day it was .583. The Yanks gave the Dodgers a run in the second inning, but brash Billy Martin got one right back with a home...
When the corporation started in 1955 as a result of a study by the Ford Foundation, it had $500,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for operating expenses and $10,000,000 from the foundation to be spent on scholarships over the next ten years. It also had $8,000,000 to match any scholarship set up by a private company within the program and $2,000,000 for administration. But the total amount would have supported only 167 scholarships a year. N.M.S. President John Marshall Stalnaker, former dean of students at Stanford, started a campaign...
...week's end, CBS served up its first spectacular of the season (Ford Star Jubilee), a radiant TV tribute to Songwriter Cole Porter's 40 years in show business. Though pure off-Broadway Porter, You're the Top was breezy, beautiful, and one of the biggest-budgeted ($250,000) live shows in TV history. A baker's dozen of high-priced Hollywood musical stylists served up a mishmash of 24 musical numbers, stylishly staged by Broadway Choreographer Robert (Pal Joey) Alton...