Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with slow and steady progress, and scorn for over-indulgence. Their descendents generally have upheld these affections, leaning not toward Vermont, a scant ten or so miles across rocky, easy, moulded hills, but toward English-speaking Canada. In architecture, the village has preserved the colonial tradition introduced by its founder, Moses Copp, in 1797; in attitude, Georgeville looks to the slowly maturing Victorian values of rural Ontario, strong in its desire to develop a "Canadian culture," or way of looking at things, sentimental in its regard for the Commonwealth and Queen...
...trustbusters charged that the merger had made Owens-Illinois the top U.S. producer of shipping containers, giving it a "decisive competitive advantage" over smaller, single-line companies, and increasing the "tendency toward monopoly in the container field generally." Replied Owens-Illinois Chairman John Preston Levis, grandson of the founder: "No antitrust violation was involved." In fact, said Levis, the merger was necessary for effective competition, "enabling us to deliver at the lowest possible cost the glass jars, bottles, tableware and other materials we make...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...
...movement continues to grow at its present rate. Founder Satenstein hopes that it will become as much a fixture in the life of young America as the Scouts. In that case, it will no longer be the ward of the book industry, but a recognized national organization supported by tax-deductible gifts. Meanwhile, teachers and librarians have been writing the L.C.A. Manhattan headquarters at the rate of 200 letters a month, asking how they can start chapters of their...
Harl Cook looks at life cheerfully. He is the son of George Cram "Jig" Cook, founder of the Provincetown Playhouse and inspirer of Eugene O'Neill when the playwright's work was first produced on the Cape in 1916. The elder Cook, writes O'Neill, was "always enthusiastic, vital, impatient with everything that smacked of falsity--he represented the spirit of revolt." Cook fils is also something of a rebel. When Cook pere died, a legacy to Harl provided for a Harvard education. About 1930, Harl came to Harvard--for three days--and then packed off with his inherited loot...