Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family Bible-reading, but in its place are thousands of groups that give the weekend instrumentalist a chance to play anything from bop to Bartok. Madison Avenue admen get together to play igao's jazz, Menninger Foundation psychiatrists play Bach. In Chicago a group of Northwestern professors formed a combo called "The Academic Cats," and San Francisco Christmas shoppers are currently being assaulted by the excruciating street-corner sounds made by nine businessmen in "vaguely Franco-Prussian uniforms" who bill themselves as the "Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band" ("We take out our animosities this way; it's cheaper...
SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, on which the premium payments go down as the size of the policy goes up, is proving a fast success. Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. pioneered the idea early in 1957, did so well that it will extend sliding scale to all existing policies of $5,000 or more...
President Eisenhower was just returned from West Point, the class of '15 reunion and the homecoming football game (Army 53, Colgate 7). Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had gone home to Cincinnati after watching football in Columbus (Ohio State 47, Northwestern 6). Then the news of Sputnik II rattled over the wires and official Washington, as though by previously stenciled orders, reacted as though it had been socked by nothing more than a soggy sponge; e.g., Pentagon sources were careful to say that McElroy had not even called his personal aides to ask about the air-conditioned moon. "It surely...
...Nelson is descended from a long line of rodeo performers his maternal family having owned the "Lazy W" Ranch in the Blue Mountain country of northwestern Colorado; his own family operates the "Heart X" Ranch on the edge of the Salmon River Primitive Area in east-central Idaho. Mr. Pringle, the photographer, has followed the ponies for a good portion of his life...
...Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage (Random House; $3.95). Evans, 52, a professor of English at Northwestern University, wrote the book with his like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME...