Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roseland building as the end of an era, the dance hall had actually been changing its function for a long time. It started as a refuge for the "poor young clerks" Scott Fitzgerald wrote about; it evolved into a place of family entertainment. From the beginning, Founder Louis Brecker, a onetime Philadelphia accountant, was determined to put Roseland in a class beyond the average taxi dance hall. He publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez...
Died. Sevellon Brown, 70, grammar-school-educated longtime editor (1920-53) and publisher (1942-54) of the lofty-minded Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, and founder (1946) of Columbia University's American Press Institute; of a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. Newsman Brown, who took over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months...
With permission from Jesuit General John B. Janssens himself, Father Busa took his problem to the U.S. and to International Business Machines. When he heard what Busa wanted, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson threw up his hands. "Even if you had time to waste for the rest of your life, you couldn't do a job like that," he said. "You seem to be more go-ahead and American than...
...there are now two Sarnoffs: Founder David and his son Robert, who was eight when the first radio network was born...
...Kinsey report will go on-and on. Dr. Paul H. Gebhard, an anthropologist and the new executive director of Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research, announced last week that Founder Alfred C. Kinsey had left enough material, compiled over 18 years, to fill 20 volumes beyond the two already published. Expected next year: a book with the tentative and unconsciously funny title, Pregnancy and Its Outcome, which will devote itself to a study of pregnancies (planned and accidental), births (live and still), and abortions (spontaneous and induced...