Word: forman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nervously to see which would be the first to cut some more. They knew that in July the first batch of postwar whisky, 68 million gallons laid down in 1945, came of age. Last week, the new price cuts finally came. Two of Kentucky's leading distillers, Brown-Forman and Glenmore, announced retail cuts of 50? to 65? a fifth on five brands of non-bonded straight whiskies...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
...loves her work so much that for seven years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...
...respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...
...indication of the team's real depth lies not in the stars but in an obscure third string center, named Matthew Forman, who seems to be the only man on the roster who has failed to make all-something-or-other in high school or college. The Crusaders, who will be playing their first game of the season tonight, must be conisdered one of the powers in Eastern intercollegiate basketball circles this year. Evidence of this was provided recently when they scrimmaged St. John's Boykoff & Co. to a three hour, 136-136 standstill...