Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eager to break into discount selling, giant Montgomery Ward & Co. made a proposal to gregarious Sol William Cantor, 50, president of the 63-link Interstate Department Stores, whose annual sales rate has climbed from $90 million to $175 million since it entered discounting in 1959. With Wall Street's Lehman Bros, playing marriage broker. Ward's intends to pick up Interstate in a $50 million stock swap. The deal makes eminent sense to Manhattan's Cantor, who gives plenty of local autonomy to managers of Interstate's 42 standard department stores, but holds "a tight rein...
...American Cancer Society's Edward Cuyler Hammond was among the first to show a statistical link between smoking and lung cancer. Partly under him and partly under others, statistics have narrowed the presumed cause from smoking in general to cigarette smoking to heavy cigarette smoking. Meanwhile, statistics amplified the effects to include not merely lung cancer, but even more important (in number of deaths ), heart and circulatory diseases-plus other pulmonary diseases and cancers of the mouth and throat. With this much to go on, Hammond hypothesized that the amount of smoke to get into the lungs...
...Scharf's exile was an unexpected and brutal blow to German Protestantism, for this determined churchman was the only link between church leaders in West Berlin and 13 million Evangelical Church members under Red dominion. Thus at a stroke this flock was cut off from its shepherd and outlawed as an organization...
Salinger in 1946 was back in New York, rid not only of soldiering but of a brief, unsuccessful marriage to a European woman physician. Though the two were obviously incompatible, he later insisted that they had a telepathic link, were aware of the same events happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists...
Died. Dr. Willard Travell, 91, indefatigable link in five generations of Travell doctors, a pioneer in galvanism (electrical treatment of muscle disorders), who lived to see his daughter Janet become the White House's first female physician; in New Rochelle...