Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check point between East and West Berlin, the blue Ford sedan of Danish Newspaperman Henrik Bonde-Henriksen was too well known to draw the special attention of the Communist police. Seated beside him as he drove through one evening last week was a man puffing furiously at a pipe, his hat pulled down over his eyes. The guard waved them on. Otto John, onetime head of West Germany's counter-espionage organization, was on his way back to the West...
...telegrams were necessarily vague, but to the 615 U.S. college and university presidents who got them, they brought the best news of the year. "Your institution," the Ford Foundation wired from Manhattan, "is to be offered [a] grant under [the] foundation's expanded program for faculty raises." No amounts were stated, but the wire services soon had the list in full. Last week, while still awaiting official details from the foundation, the nation's campuses, hospitals and medical schools were reeling excitedly over the biggest ($500 million) foundation windfall in history (TIME...
...when it thought it would have only $50 million to spend, it began sending out questionnaires, asking about faculty salaries, enrollments, curriculum and accreditation. At that time it included one stipulation which was later dropped: that each recipient must raise enough money to match its grant. Then, when the Ford Motor Co. decided to put its stock up for public sale, the foundation realized that it would have assets enough to give an additional $210 million to the colleges, $200 million to some 3,500 privately supported hospitals, and $90 million to an as yet undetermined list of privately supported...
...Hume Cronyn; Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Christmas Story, on San Francisco Beat; Barbed Wire Christmas, on Calvacade Theater; A Christmas Dinner, on Kraft Theater; Silent Night, on Rheingold Theater; Santa Is No Saint, on Matinee Theater; A Kiss for Santa, on Ford Theater; Christmas in Camden, on The Big Story; and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, on The Honeymooners...
...subscribers. The magazine has about 100 backers, who put up $1,000,000, according to Gutterman. Intended to popularize the wisdom of the ages in words and pictures, Wisdom in its first issue carries such bylines as Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bertrand Russell. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry Ford II. Their pieces have all appeared elsewhere as essays, book chapters or speeches, but Gutterman plans to run some original pieces in future issues...