Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center for geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and related fields at M.I.T. The donor, whose gift, made jointly with his wife, was announced this week: Cecil H. Green (M.I.T. '23), vice president of Texas Instruments, Inc., a Dallas electronics firm, and board chairman of Geophysical Service, Inc., a subsidiary outfit that does seismographic exploration in 21 countries. Said M.I.T.'s President Julius Stratton: "The earth sciences stand on the threshold of great advances, as did electronics ten years ago. The gift . . . will enable geologists, chemists, physicists, meteorologists and oceanographers to work side by side in a basic and applied scientific...
...going to learn. I've got a staff to do that." What is worse-although Randall is still confident that no one suspects-is that the key he wore and still wears was not issued by Phi Beta Kappa, but by Kappa Beta Phi, a whimsical outfit that honored the unscholarly achievements of gay Lehigh blades (Randall is a Phi Bete all right, but he has misplaced...
...needs. Week after week, the Phil Silvers Show gave Bilko a chance to prove that noncoms really run the regiment, and week after week Bilko proved that he rated his stripes. Bolder than the brass he heckled, brasher than the brightest operator in his informal command, Bilko ran his outfit with the earthy, barracks-brand humor that can make service life (and TV watching) tolerable. He was one of those rare peacetime soldiers, a guy who never figured to need any "shipping over" music; any Army recruiting sergeant could recognize him as a 30-year man. But Phil Silvers...
...enormous deal. He attended none of the negotiations. Perry is an organization man, operating under contract to Roncom Productions, Inc. (named after eldest son Ronnie, 20, a sophomore at Notre Dame). Roncom is wholly owned by the Como family, but sport-shirted Perry is rarely seen in the outfit's Park Avenue offices. His 33 full-time employees (soon to be expanded to 100) run his affairs, which include a TV-packaging subsidiary (Roncom TV Inc.) and music-publishing firm (Roncom Music Co.). Perry's amiable patter is written for him by TV's highly esteemed...
Sometimes the scholarly alms-asking goes wildly awry; one outfit mailed out letters advising businessmen that "we shall be happy to carry any product which, due to its distinctive shape or color, would be easy to publicize in our TV film without actually mentioning its trade name." Addresses got shuffled, and the letter was sent to a venerable trust fund whose officers were considering (but immediately ceased to consider) a request to support the group's lofty scientific aims...