Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another ranking jet ace of the Korean war, First Lieut. Ralph D. ("Hoot") Gibson, 27 (with 5 MIG-15s), hopped into his T-33 Jet and flew 600 miles from Selfridge Field, Mich, to attend a hero's welcome in his hometown of Mount Carmel, 111. (pop. 9,182). He had planned to drive his blue Cadillac convertible, said Gibson, but "my dad called me and told me that I better fly. He told me the roads were pretty bad, and that an awful lot of people got killed on the highways...
Escalator Clause. In Hartford, Mich., Shirley Putschel, payroll clerk at an automobile parts plant, admitted she had been raising the figures on her husband's paychecks...
...Detroit, Mich...
Died. W. K. Kellogg, 91, cereal tycoon (Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies); of a circulatory ailment; in Battle Creek, Mich. His $50 million fortune-and that of the whole breakfast-food industry-grew out of the Health Reform Institute, a water cure operated in Battle Creek by the Seventh Day Adventists. When they abandoned it in 1876, Kellogg's doctor-brother, John, turned it into the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invented flaked cereals to feed his patients. One of them, C. W. Post, took up the idea, made a success marketing Post Toasties and Grape Nuts. Thus encouraged, Kellogg...
...unintimidated nine: Democrats Byrd (Va.) Douglas (ILL.), Ellender (La.), Fulbright (Ark.), Gillette (Iowa), O'Mahoney (Wyo.) and Robertson (Va.); Republicans Duff (Pa.) and Ferguson (Mich...