Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Fred Hutchinson, 36, who resigned last year as manager of the Detroit Tigers when the club refused him a two-year contract, got what he wanted from the St. Louis Cardinals: a $30,000-a-year contract to manage the Cards for the next two seasons.
SHOE PRICES are going up. St. Louis' International Shoe Co., biggest U.S. shoemaker (1954 sales: $246.8 million), will boost wholesale prices as much as 5% because of rising labor and material costs, consumer demand for more varied styles. Other big manufacturers will soon follow suit, increasing retail prices as...
Next week Westinghouse faces more trouble. A House Military Operations subcommittee opens public hearings into the costly fiasco of the Navy's Demon fighters, which were powered by Westinghouse engines. Five of these swept-wing fighters made by St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., have crashed; 21 others are...
In 1906, the young D'Arcy Advertising Co. of St. Louis welcomed a new account: a small soft-drink manufacturer. In the next 49 years, the agency made Coca-Cola's name and "The Pause that Refreshes" known around the world, helped boost yearly sales to $200 million...
Among the other originals: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Madame Delphine Delamare, the faithless young wife of a middle-aged doctor who had studied medicine under Flaubert's father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe...