Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story was preposterous. To promote the brewing of its 100 millionth barrel of beer, Pabst flew a delegation back to the tiny German village of Mettenheim, birthplace and first malting grounds of Company Founder Jacob Best. The idea, chuckled a frank Pabstman last week, was "blatantly commercial...
...Mormons reply that the sheep are simply returning to their proper fold after centuries astray. Their missionaries find an ancient kinship with the Pacific's brown-skinned peoples in a passage from the Book of Mormon, which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth...
...founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...
...slim, blonde, pregnant 16-year-old stubbornly clung to her story. Sally insisted that she was still a virgin. Many a doctor might have exploded. But Dr. Arthur Roth, 37, knows and likes adolescents too well for that. As founder of the five-year-old Teen-Age Clinic at Kaiser Foundation Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., Roth is an expert in a new medical specialty - "ephebiatrics" - that closes the gap between specialized treatment for children and for adults. Last week, having discovered the family causes of Sally's mental block-building, he persuaded her to go to the obstetrician...
Died. Dr. Khan Sahib, 76, founder and leader of Pakistan's ruling Republican Party, onetime (1955-57) Chief Minister of the province of West Pakistan, a physician who became a member of the Indian National Congress, worked with Nehru and Gandhi for Indian independence; of three bayonet wounds delivered by an assassin; in Lahore, Pakistan...