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...Dwight Eisenhower's White House office, Chicago's Charles Harting Percy, 38-year-old president of Bell & Howell Co., cameramakers, told how key businessmen were planning to hash over ways of fighting the recession. High point of the plans would be a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association attended by some 2,000 top businessmen. President Eisenhower, who holds it an article of faith that Government, business and labor have a joint antirecession responsibility, jumped to his feet, began pacing the floor. "Do you mean that's really what you're going to do?" asked...
...week long Louisville was a country carnival, happily clipping the customers. The town belonged to hotelkeepers with five-buck rooms sold out at $25 a flop, to hash houses peddling 60? breakfasts for $2, to taxi drivers with their meters off, charging fat, flat fees. It belonged to loud, lubricated crowds, to light-fingered dips tiptoeing daintily among the juleps. But right up to post time, the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby belonged to a big-barreled California colt named Silky Sullivan (TIME, March...
...Committee's motivating assumption is that the teaching of high school physics has not changed since the turn of the century. With each technical advance, the Committee claims, a little of the philosophy of 1900 has given way and new skills appended to the curriculum. The result is a hash of abstracted Newtonian concepts, television sets, doorbells, and assorted gimmicks...
...James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his own many-faceted snooty character. Sex. "What's a woman for?" "The thing you have to know is yourself; you are people." And so, his stable of characters, I suspect, is a hash-up of his own personality...
...went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself in canvas, rationed the food so that it would last, and waited for his ankles to get better...