Word: houre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help raise the remaining $7,500,000. Sample: Fund Chairman H. Irving Pratt dropped a casual note to one alumnus who had already given $100,000, promptly got back a pledge for $100,000 more. From Manhattan, Pratt raised $50,000 with three phone calls in a single hour. One previous giver, listed as possibly good for another $5,000, plunked down $35,000. At week's end, with hundreds of other alumni giving and giving again, Harvard could see success ahead in the most massive fund campaign ever carried out by a university for the benefit of undergraduate...
After the couple moved into one apartment, it was often filled with young actors sitting up all night reading plays. "Annie was intense about everything," May remembers now. "She'd lie on the floor and watch television by the hour, or she'd fry an egg, standing there leaning over the skillet staring as if the fate of the city depended on that egg. She was either a hungry tiger or a lovable...
...things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where they are. He is all things to all men without...
...sales (to $1.1 billion) and earnings (to $41 million), drive it from second place, well behind American Can, into position as the big gest U.S. container company. Last week General Clay pulled off an important maneuver: he settled with the Steelworkers Union for a threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour package, thus averting a possible strike...
...Steel Hour...