Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower's first stop was Atlanta. At the airport, he stepped from his chartered Constellation to be greeted by Georgia's Democratic Governor Herman Talmadge and Atlanta's Democratic Mayor William B. Hartsfield. As Ike rode along downtown Peachtree Street, four tons of confetti, carefully distributed by Young Republicans, fluttered down. Thousands of Southerners cheered from the sidewalks and windows. It was the liveliest reception Atlanta had given anyone since Clark Gable came to town on December 15, 1939 for the premiere of Gone With the Wind...
...phenomenon of the bestseller lists these days is the plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...
Yale University announced that its head football coach, 300-lb. former All American Guard Herman Hickman had resigned. With a record of 16 victories, 17 losses and two ties in the past four years of his Yale coaching career, Hickman's contract had nine years to run. His next job: a TV program sponsored by the General Cigar Company...
...materials. It also takes the priceless catalysts of knowledge and character. Those ingredients are well compounded in the man who transformed Merck & Co. from a modest company making a conventional line of drugs and other chemicals into a flourishing medical pioneer. He is Merck's Chairman George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck...
...fact, the choice of Sparkman has had little effect so far on the party in the South. Dissident Southern leaders, mildly pleased by Stevenson's nomination, tend to be contemptuous of Sparkman. The basic Southern objection to him is clearly expressed by a supporter of Georgia's Herman Talmadge: "Sparkman is as bad a left-winger as the rest, except on the civil rights issue." Says Herman himself: "Sparkman was just a bone tossed to the South. We don't like bones. We'll be a little less than enthusiastic...