Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion they had called in a new team of ghostwriters-diffident, New Dealing Columnist Jay Franklin, and David Noyes, a wealthy former vice president of Lord & Thomas, who served as idea-man for WPB's Donald Nelson during...
Under an overcast sky, Ike took his place on the Low Library steps-at the right hand of Frederic K. Coykendall, chairman of Columbia's trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...
...Realize?" Meanwhile, more & more things (not including international relations) came to be held together by screws, bolts and nuts. Their shape and kind were in chaos. In 1861 the Franklin Institute got together a group of engineers who adopted the design of William Sellers as the standard U.S. screw thread. Without it, the unified U.S. railway system could hardly have been built...
...around. Now, in many rural areas throughout the U.S., there is no doctor to call. The old general practitioners are dying out; young replacements are too few to cover the territory properly, even if they took to helicopters. Last week a group of worried Kansans, sparked by Dr. Franklin Murphy, dean of the Medical School of Kansas University, had a plan...
Married. William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 30, National Tennis Doubles champ (the U.S. took the Davis Cup for the third straight year when he and Gardnar Mulloy helped beat Australia last month); and Nancy Pike, 25, onetime junior editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...