Word: henrietta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weare, a Princeton Phi Beta Kappa (1925), onetime manager of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, later boss of the T rib's European edition, and, most recently, assistant to the publisher. Weare's job, as outlined by CQ's Owners and Co-Editors Nelson and Henrietta Poynter: to add quantity to CQ's quality circulation...
...Poynters started CQ in 1945 after a hitch of wartime information service in Washington. Both were old journalistic hands: Nelson as editor of the St. Peters burg (Fla.) Times, owned by his family; Henrietta as foreign editor for Conde Nast in Europe. They started Congressional Quarterly, says Henrietta, "when we found that, though Washington had more than 1,000 reporters, nobody was really doing a job on Congress...
...Thomas E. Dewey last week formally opened the first section of what will be the longest, best-planned and most remarkable toll road in America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great...
...high-school teacher named Elmer Halseth. In 1939, Halseth begged part of a touring exhibit to show to his classes. The youngsters agreed with Halseth that the high school should own one of the paintings. They collected $50 in nickels and dimes for Shack Alley by Chicago's Henrietta Wood...
Died. Annie Henrietta Yule (Lady Yule), 75, one of the world's richest widows, whose husband (and cousin) Sir David ("Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left her some $100 million when he died in 1928; in St. Albans, England. She preferred animals to people, kept a racing stable and a menagerie, bought broken-down draft horses and put them to pasture on her estate...