Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston is a builder at heart, and wherever he goes-in more than 200,000 miles of travel a year-he preaches the need of more home building. He is convinced that good housing is the best insurance against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not...
The Four Seasons also has food. From goose to mousse, it has one of the highest-priced-and most exotic-menus in high-priced Manhattan, in league with Chambord, Le Pavilion, Colony, Brussels, "21." A typical dinner for two, from Sweet and Sour Pike in Tarragon Aspic ($2.25) through Piccata...
Five years ago, they decided to ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years...
Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro...
Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi...