Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
Suffocation. Colorado-born Economist Mather was 39 when he took over in 1954 -the nation's youngest land-grant college president. What he got for the honor was a stepchild institution, utterly straitjacketed by the state's frugal division of personnel and standardization, which controlled teachers and salaries by the same procedures applied to road building. The setup was so suffocating that Phi Beta Kappa refused to charter a Massachusetts University chapter...
...Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...