Word: jose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allied Artists has signed Jose Ferrer for Matador, the Barnaby Conrad novel based on the life of Spain's famed bullfighter, Manolete...
...Ironing Boards. Like Caltech. DuBridge also emerged out of an unlikely background. Born in Terre Haute. Ind., the son of a Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people...
...whaled away at each other for three days to settle the N.C.A.A. championships. Superbly conditioned, Louisiana State's sophomore heavyweight, Crowe Peele, demonstrated just how good a college boxer can get. Although his team finished behind Michigan State in a three-way tie for second (along with San Jose State and Syracuse University), Peele battered his way through the tournament finals without a defeat...
Today the IBM empire spreads to every corner of the world, selling or renting business machines at the rate of $461 million in 1954. In the U.S. alone, IBM employs 34,000 workers; at six plants (Endicott, Poughkeepsie and Kingston, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; Greencastle, Ind.; San Jose, Calif.) it makes 5,960 different models of business machines which it sells or rents through 188 U.S. offices. Overseas, IBM's World Trade Corp., run by 35-year-old Arthur Watson, Tom Jr.'s younger brother, employs 16,500 more workers in 17 smaller plants, 227 offices in 79 nations...
Moral Victory. In Arequipa, Peru, beaten unconscious by 82-year-old Jose Ibarra, Saturnine Garcia, 110, recovered, amiably explained the scrap: "We were chatting about events of long ago. Jose got mad because I proved that I have a better memory for dates...