Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once plain Methodist church in Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta's First Methodist Church last week: "If this keeps up, it will soon be difficult to tell Methodists from Episcopalians...
...first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants who have saved for decades to make the trip...
Most of the travel agents get as much of a kick out of their work as the tourists do from their travels. Says President J. Stuart Rotchford of Chicago's big Happiness Tours: "With the same effort in another business, I could make twice the money. But I would not have half...
Bullish economic news generally tightens the money market, encouraging more borrowers to compete for the available supply. For the nation's bankers, home builders, corporations and consumers, the tightening means that they must pay more to get the money they need to make loans, build houses, expand industry, buy autos, appliances and TV sets. Money has been gradually tightening up since spring as the economy spurted to new highs; last week it got a heavy turn of the vise...
Died. Tiffany Thayer, 57, novelist who celebrated unending adventure and available women, served up a sex fantasy (Thirteen Men) with enough spice to make it an overnight bestseller in 1930, followed with others in the same highly seasoned vein (Thirteen Women, Rabelais for Boys and Girls), faded fast and returned to advertising; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass...