Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change that affects the discount business the most is the changed customers. People are no longer content with a cluttered loft offering cut-rate appliances and little else. They want liberal credit, free delivery, a repair section, the right to return purchases. They want more goods in the store, e.g., shoes, shirts, suits, dresses, lingerie, towels. They want individual attention, well-mannered clerks...
...waiting for the rest of the field. Dick Mayer, 34, former New York State amateur champion and now a Florida pro, finished with a fast 282. And Dick did not have it won either. Last year's winner, Dentist Gary Middlecoff, 36, of Memphis, Tenn., curled in a loft. putt for a birdie on the final hole, and forced a playoff...
...hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then, as Woodson...
...there was more than enough talent to keep the scouts alert. Scout Steve Owen, representing the Philadelphia Eagles, watched Purdue's Len Dawson loft his soft, leading passes and murmured, "What a ball that man throws." He watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there...
...place consists chiefly of two studios, his and hers. Josephine Hopper's studio is cheery and crowded with pictures; his is bright, bare, orderly and dominated by a loft. high easel. Hopper built the easel himself, shortly after moving into the studio 43 long years ago. Perhaps twice a year he puts a canvas on it and paints steadily, averaging a month to finish a picture. The rest of the time it stands empty, while he broodingly tries to visualize his next work...