Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Homer Martin, 66, first president of the United Auto Workers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A onetime Baptist minister, Martin quit the pulpit in 1933 to work at General Motors, where he helped organize employees and became head of the fledgling union in 1936 when it bolted the A.F.L. to join the more militant C.I.O. After three years, during which union membership grew from 27,000 to 149,000, he lost out in an intra-union power struggle with the Reuther brothers and eventually left the labor movement...
...Battle of New Orleans was immortalized by Johnny Horton, Waterloo by Stonewall Jackson, Koukamunga by Homer & Jethro...
...Homer Wadsworth, president of a Kansas City, Mo., group of foundations, compares foundation operation to exploring for oil. "If we don't get any dry holes," he says, "it means we aren't exploring enough." A foundation executive recently heaped praise on John Gardner for his resourceful and enterprising conduct of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, but then he went on to express the wish that Gardner had shown the same boldness in his previous job-head of the Carnegie Corporation...
...CATHY COOL Homer...
...building, Manhattan's 37-year-old Whitney Museum has forged into the lead as the city's-and the nation's-handsomest and most dynamic showcase for contemporary U.S. art. Under the directorship of scholarly Lloyd Goodrich, the nation's ranking authority on Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, the Whitney has played host to artists as varied as Realist Andrew Wyeth and Environmentalist Louise Nevelson, while its annual displays of works by younger artists continue to spotlight the latest trends. Last week the Whitney announced that Goodrich, now 70 and with the museum since its founding...