Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movius pinpointed the site as a farm in the French village of Les Eyzles in "the prehistoric capital of Western Europe...
...hand, Dan Mich, 49, who had resigned in 1950 as executive editor of Look to become editorial director of McCall's (circ. 4,525,060). Because Cowles wanted "to give Mich a free hand in selecting his assistants," Look's Executive Editor William Lowe and Managing Editor Les Midgley resigned with Tasker. New Editorial Director Mich, whose salary at Look is close to $50,000 a year, will have a healthy magazine to work on. Look's 1953 advertising revenue was $23 million, highest in its history (up from...
...pays her own way) is only part of Clem's work. She spends long hours in food markets, has been to maple-sugar-on-snow parties in New England, road-tested barbecue stands in Texas, gone sardine fishing off the coast of Maine, reported Danish markets, shopped Les Halles in Paris, donned a sou'wester at 3:30 a.m. to see how mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality...
Between the warring groups, San Francisco Police Chief Michael ("Big Mike") Gaffey and 170 officers formed a thin line. Police Captain John Engler and Lieut. Les Dolan moved forward to meet the marchers. "Calm down, men," said Engler. "We don't want any trouble here." But A.F.L. men, marching 30 abreast, slogged on, pushing the police before them. Half a dozen marchers tried for a breakthrough. The first man rushed head down through the police line, was caught by a cop's uppercut, sent sprawling to the ground. Four policemen pummeled him with fists and clubs and carried...
Jungle Bells (Les Paul & Mary Ford; Capitol). A twist on Jingle Bells, featuring a nursery-rhyme lyric, a Latin beat and some remarkably jungly shrieks and bellows made by Les Paul's guitar...