Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a platform high on a limestone cliff at Picton, Ont., Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur Bartlett Homer scissored a ribbon one afternoon last week. In the dark waters of the Bay of Quinte at the foot of the cliff, the rust-red lake steamer Powell Stackhouse cast off for Lackawanna, N.Y. with the first load of eastern Ontario iron...
...Yardlings collected 19 hits, including a three run triple by Bob Cleary in the third inning and a three run homer by Tom Bergantino in the fourth. Pitcer Don Hoffman had a one hitter going until the seventh inning and gave up only four hits before he was relieved in the ninth...
...truth of the matter is that the real pioneering in making high-quality books available at a low price has been largely that of our company, to some extent reinforced by our competitors, particularly Pocket Books . . . We have sold not tens of thousands but millions of copies of Homer, Dante and other classical, scholarly and important contemporary writers through tens of thousands of outlets...
Television spent the week racing back and forth through history like a time machine. Omnibus set out heroically to recreate Homer's Iliad, and for 90 minutes the poetry was mostly drowned out in a clatter of tin swords on tin shields as Trojan and Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...
...doctors, hardly any hospitals. But as such "morbid conditions" began to recede, the clinic changed from a kind of emergency school for overworked, ill-equipped doctors to an increasingly learned seminar, is now the country's biggest, most active interracial clinic (others: St. Louis' city-owned Homer G. Phillips and Washington, D.C.'s Freedman's Hospital Clinics). White doctors, once only a handful at Andrew meetings, have been attending in increasing numbers, now make up more than a third of the delegates. Most of last week's meeting was devoted to abstruse professional papers...