Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football has been good to Sam Huff. When he married Mary Fletcher, his classmate sweetheart, in their senior year of high school, his friends were heading for the mines. Now the Huffs and their two children, Robert Lee ("Sam") Huff Jr., 7, and Catherine Ann, 2, live in their own house in Rock Lake, W. Va. Last year Sam bought a 25-acre farm in nearby Farmington to raise Shetland ponies. "When he was a kid, we couldn't afford a pony," says his father, who lives on the farm. "Sam wants every kid in the area to have...
...N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas next year. What is more, the newly formed American Football League, headed by Dallas Oilman Lamar Hunt, has high hopes of playing next year in Houston, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boston, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Says Hunt: "Unless the N.F.L. folds, there will be two professional football leagues next year...
Surrounding himself with all the secrecy of a high diplomatic emissary, Corbu flew in from Paris in person to make a four-day inspection of the site (adjacent to the Fogg Art Museum), was given convincing proof that his absence had long been noted. Architecture students staged an impromptu reception, complete with 16-ft. effigies of Corbu's stylized Modulor figure, cheered him to the rafters. Exclaimed the delighted Corbu: "What spirit! Une atmosphere morale...
...total number of U.S. stockholders receiving such handy budget balancers is also at a new high. The latest New York Stock Exchange study showed 12,490,000 individual shareholders of record, up from 8,630,000 in 1956. The number of stockholders is now bigger than the number of factory workers. One in every four U.S. households gets a dividend check or checks v. one in seven only seven years ago. To keep the checks going, U.S. corporations are declaring dividends at a rate approaching $14 billion a year, against $9 billion...
Born in David City, Neb., Hallmark's Hall started work at the age of nine selling lemon-extract perfume to help support his mother, worked on through high school selling postcards and helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back...