Word: milton
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Originally from St. Paul, Minn., Brooks received his A.B. from Harvard in 1911, and his Ph.D. in 1914. Before returning to Harvard as an instructor, Brooks taught at Yale and Clark Universities. In 1931, he was appointed director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Mass., where he served until...
...Kudner ran into trouble with TV, which it started using to plug Buick in 1952. It showed a knack for buying top TV shows at the height of their drawing power-just before they began to wane. Buick's big-league TV advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale...
...streets of London as if invisible. The city was the portrait center of the world. Sir Joshua Reynolds was discoursing at the Royal Academy. Two expatriate Americans, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, plied an elegant trade. Blake meanwhile engraved and illustrated his own poems, and did illustrations for Milton, Dante and the Bible, working prodigiously to create some of the most magnificent and moving volumes ever made, which he sold, when he could sell them at all, for little more than a dinner...
...selecting its new president, the N.A.M. turned away from the relatively small businessman who has often been its choice, instead voted in Milton C. Lightner, 67, president of Singer Manufacturing Co., world's biggest sewing-machine maker. Basing his maiden speech on a new N.A.M. oath in which he vowed to "earnestly seek to promote a healthy economy," Lightner warned the delegates that "to be militarily strong, to give proper aid to our allies, to assist those who need our help, we must have a strong economy here at home," promised to fight the growth of central government. Nervously...
...Donald P. Kircher, 42, vice president of Singer Manufacturing Co. since 1952, was picked as president to succeed 67-year-old Milton C. Lightner (see Management). Kircher, whose latest assignment has been overseeing Singer's current overseas expansion (Brazil, Japan, the Philippines and Australia) as Lightner's assistant, was born in St. Paul, Minn., graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1939, joined the Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. He served 21 months in Europe during World War II as a tank commander, was twice wounded, returned to the U.S. with three Silver Stars...