Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was 15, the family moved to Missoula, Mont. Clarence founded his high-school newspaper, and went on to Montana State University where he edited the college newspaper, The Kaimin (meaning "message" in Salish Indian). In 1917, he solemnly refused to sign a, student resolution endorsing Woodrow Wilson's war effort-at least not until Wilson had made it clear how he was going to conduct the war. The label "pacifist" was pinned on him. But he was one of the first on the campus to volunteer, and he went to France with the 18th Engineers Railway Regiment...
...Mont Television Network last week offered a time-and travel-saving substitute for salesmen's conventions. Over a closed circuit from New York to 20 major cities, Du Mont will televise speeches from executives to company employes, permit them to offer comments and ask questions from the "floor" through an audio circuit tied in with the TV hookup. The "Closed Circuit Convention Plan" becomes available on April 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price: $11,000 for the first hour, with a 25% discount on additional time. Missing: the wine, women, song and bad jokes of that hitherto indestructible...
...year, the number of television sponsors had soared from 680 to 2,316, boasted Du Mont's TV network General Manager Chris Whitting. Said he: "Our network tripled its billing in 1949, grossing in excess of $3,000,000." Beefy Harry Bannister, general manager of Detroit's WWJ-TV, saw nothing ahead but a golden future: "I don't think it matters what kind of program the sponsor has. They all sell the product...
...Taking off to join the search from Great Falls, Mont., a B-29 crashed and split in two, killing eight. It was the sixth Air Force crash in the Pacific Northwest this year. The worst: an Air Force EUR-54 with 44 aboard, lost last month on a flight from Alaska to Montana...
...sentimental journey to Paris' Rue de la Huchette, which he pictured so tenderly in The Last Time I Saw Paris. About one-third of the 1,500 people who lived on the street in the early '30s were still there, he reported. Oldtimers included Mme. Frémont, the laundress, Taxidermist Noël and the chestnut vendor. The traffic was the same as 20 years ago, said Paul-it was a marvel anybody was alive...