Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wurlitzer Co., testified that he had used underworld contacts in such cities as New York and Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials denied all, and Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who held the Wurlitzer sales-manager job before Hammergren, called the testimony "dirty pool" on Democrat Kennedy's part...
...almost a Sunday hobby. His heavily textured urn, a $100 prizewinner, is both modest and forceful, both earthy and alert looking. ¶ Italy's Giovan Battista Valentini, 27, gives "no special value" to his $250 prizewinner. "Like others I do, it is made the same way as in Homer's time." With its squared-off underside, made possible by stoneware's hard-baked solidity, the bowl has a look of energy held in suspension like a Chinese bronze...
Nowhere was the steel news brighter than at Bethlehem Steel Corp. President Arthur B. Homer of the nation's No. 2 producer (after U.S. Steel) disclosed that on top of earning $57,678,360 or $1.24 a share in the closing quarter of 1958, the second highest fourth-quarter profit in its history, the company was operating at 80% of enlarged 1959 capacity and planning to go to 85% next quarter. Said Homer: "We've been having quite an upsurge in orders. It looks as if January bookings will be the highest for any month in the last...
...Agnosticism, Atheism, and Belief" was the topic of an informal talk by Homer W. Smith, professor of Physiology at the New York University Medical School, in the Winthrop House Common Room last night...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. With Apollonian clarity and Dionysian passion, Greece's late, famed man of letters challenges Homer with a sequel that is a modern epic of adventure, eroticism, and the universal quest for self-knowledge...