Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 56, fissionable, fabulously successful Brooklyn-reared uranium promoter, exuberant art collector (TIME, July 25, 1955); and Mrs. Mildred Hawley Heide, 37; in Baltimore...
...Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado was trampled in a melee, and the convention chairman banged so hard for order that his gavel flew apart, its head striking Delegate Herman Schoernstein squarely between the eyes...
...Herman C. (for Christian) Nolen, 54, was elected president of McKesson & Robbins. Inc., world's largest wholesaler of drugs and liquors (Martin's V.V.O., Highland Queen), to succeed George Van Gorder, 60, who remains board chairman and chief executive. Nolen, son of a Muskegon, Mich, physician, was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Wisconsin (class of '22), worked his way up to production superintendent of Continental Motors Corp., then left business to take a Ph.D. in 1937 at Ohio State University. His doctoral thesis (Study of Chain Store Merchandising Methods and Selling) established...
...current polio season than last year (2,295 since April 1, as against 3,613), a swift outbreak hit Chicago and suburbs. Almost every hour of every day last week, workers stuck a pin into a wall map in the office of Chicago's Health Boss Herman N. Bundesen. The red pins stood for new cases of paralytic polio, yellow for nonparalytic, black for fatal cases. By week's end there were 268 pins-166 red, 97 yellow, five black (as against 39 cases, two deaths, at the corresponding date last year...
Fair Lady is not all Rex Harrison. Producer Herman Levin has outfitted it sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation...