Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
After getting along for 92 years with nothing but male veeps, R. H. Macy & Co. last week appointed its first woman vice president. She is Brooklyn-born Beatrice Rosenberg, 52, who joined Macy's as a hat clerk 32 years ago, climbed steadily up to department manager, a merchandise counselor (millinery and footwear) and merchandise administrator. Vice President Rosenberg (married to Harry Kirshbaum, an architect) is now in charge of the millinery and shoe sales staffs, some 400 people. Her motto:"Beat last year's figures...
...CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral indignation, "always behaved like a gentleman when we roomed together at Harvard...
Only a month after paying off the last of a $123 million RFC loan on his Fontana steel mill, Industrialist Henry Kaiser was back hat in hand last week knocking on RFC's door. This time he wanted $38 million for his auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, which already owes RFC $43 million. K-F President Edgar Kaiser explained that the company needs the money to tide it over until it can sell its backlog of 18,000 cars. He said that the Government's credit restrictions had slowed up its sales so much that...
...hat is off to the man who can take it-and win decisively. I nominate Robert A. Taft...