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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense. Lisa has been preparing that act ever since she sang her way out of the chorus line and up to a mike at Manhattan's old Versailles club. Rodgers & Hammerstein spotted her there, signed her for Allegro (1947), outfitted her with a show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps...
...televiewers watched Geneva's week-long series of ceremonies, commemorations and rededications. High point for Genevans was Switzerland's first "Son et Lumière," a $60,000 pageant of colored spotlights and tape-recorded voices that ranged all over the Reformation Monument, the university and the old city walls to illustrate with real-life details the story of the Great Reformer...
...rise of supermarkets, which now sell 68% of all U.S. groceries, has brought some potent new weapons to an old competitive war: the fight between the national name brands (sold under a corporate trademark) and the private labels (groceries processed for individual stores or chains). In the past three years, the private labels have increased their share of the market for many items-instant coffee from 12% to 31%, frozen vegetables from 38% to 53%, margarine from 58% to 71%, etc. Even such an advocate of national brands as the National Tea Co. (1958 sales: $794 million) is reluctantly turning...
Last week the Agriculture Department began to mix the same foul old omelet. After listening to a delegation of New Jersey egg farmers and their complaints about the egg surplus, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson issued orders to buy millions of dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...
...merger will be the second in the last five years, during which the bank's deposits have more than doubled. Kentucky-born Harold Helm went to work for the 135-year-old Chemical Bank in 1920 straight from Princeton, was made assistant cashier six years later at 25, one of the youngest men in the company's history in that job. Coolly efficient and able to turn on charm to convince a client or win over a potential ally. Helm became vice president in 1929, first vice president in 1946, president in 1947, finally took over as chairman...