Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woodruff, who has the build of a lumberjack, the face of an intelligent fullback, runs the company with a relentless executive grip. He recalls how, in the 1920s, he discovered one day that per capita Coca-Cola sales in Montreal were larger than those in Miami. Then & there he decided that Coca-Cola was destined to spread beyond the U.S., across the world...
...Deadly Grip. Through most of his ups & downs Birdsall Sweet kept his spirits high, learned to make the best of his ironclad life. He learned checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...
...years went by there was nothing more that anyone could do. Polio would still not release him from its deadly grip. A spinal curvature developed and gradually worsened. The ravages of kidney stones sapped his disease-ridden body. His strength was almost gone. Last week, after Birdsall Sweet, 32, was finally released from 18 years and seven months in his iron lung, Dr. Smith performed his last, sad service. On the death certificate he wrote: "Acute nephritis due to chronic kidney stones due to poliomyelitis...
Even in the hands of a second-rater, few stories can grip the American imagination so much as that of the pioneer, his hardships, his courage, his eccentricities. Once in a while, a really good writer retells it and then the pioneer's story seems as fresh as the land he settled. Such a writer is Conrad Richter, a 59-year-old Pennsylvanian who also spends part of his time in New Mexico. Though his novels lack the color of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Way West (TIME, Oct. 17), they have an impressive honesty...
...film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty holds just about as firm a grip on the immediate future as Hollywood can offer...