Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he developed a thrombophlebitic leg, but told investigators in his hospital room that he left his $64,000 packaging firm seven weeks after the show went on the air, had no knowledge of rigging. Nevertheless, in an angry letter of resignation last week, Cowan accused his boss, CBS Inc.'s President Frank Stanton, of trying to force him out. Wrote Cowan: "You do not want a man who has had an association with quiz shows, even though his association was honest and honorable...
...challenge if we limit ourselves merely to meeting the Kremlin's military threat." Watson's speech was greeted with some restraint. Later, it was liberally interpreted (Watson left for Europe immediately after the speech) by incoming N.A.M. President Rudolf F. Bannow, president of Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines, Inc. to mean that "if you give the economy more push, it will produce more taxes automatically." Bannow went on to say that "taxes should be such as to encourage business," and plugged the N.A.M. program for reducing taxes to 47% maximum on individual and corporate income. Such tax reforms would...
...shipped around the world for a year as a coal stoker on a freighter ("I had to get that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing milling machines. The company now has 400 profit-sharing, nonunion employees, is worth $6,500,000. Married and the father of two daughters, Bannow sings a rousing first bass in a Bridgeport male chorus, the North Star Singers, has given up soccer with Bridgeport...
...Revell Inc.'s Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant. The build-it-yourself kit includes a reactor, steam generator, and power-transmitting equipment. List price...
...SECOND WORLD WAR, by Winston S. Churchill and the Editors of LIFE (615 pp., 2 vols.; TIME Inc.; regular edition, $25; deluxe edition, $27.50), combines the best of Churchill's sonorous prose from his six-volume history of World War II with some of the greatest war pictures and paintings ever brought between covers. The result, an excellent piece of bookmaking, anatomizes and dramatizes the greatest of wars. Included in the deluxe edition is an evocative recording of some of Churchill's wartime speeches...