Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaw but written it 60 years earlier, it would undoubtedly have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
...headquarters for the United Nations. Over the $3,500,000 structure, as big as four football fields, nutter the flags of 72 nations. Leading up to it is a "Path of Nations" made of stones from the four corners of the earth. The building is the new plant of Parker Pen Co., whose global-mindedness has made it the biggest penmaker in the world...
...dedicatory "globalunch," where the dishes included räker (peeled shrimp) from Norway, sur sill (sour herring) from Sweden, and topinambours en daube (stew of Jerusalem artichokes) from France, Chairman Ken Parker preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
Trip Abroad. Parker, who likes to describe a fountain pen as "a controlled leak," got his first introduction to foreign markets when he went to France and Germany to study. Later, after a stint as a Navy flyer in World War I, he went to work for the family company, persuaded his father to start a British subsidiary. Said father George later: "We lost $100,000 the first year because we did not understand the British temperament. We have become wiser since...
Probable starting lineups: Harvard--Fisher, g; Laimbeer, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Hadik, rhb; Bigelow, chb; Little, lhb; Lingelbach, or; Holmes, ir; Goles, cf; Lloyd H; Truslow, ol; Exeter--Tyson, g; King, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Ballard, rhb; Hodnett, chb; Lamont, rhb; McIntosh, or; Gomez, ir; Martin, cf; Parker, il; Burlingame...