Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson and Vice President Robert L. Moore signed an agreement to buy the 22-hotel Eppley chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million for the Statler chain...
...Land Between the Rivers, by Indiana University's Associate Professor Carl Van Buskirk, 49. The story is adapted from a poem by Yale's Novelist-Professor Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men). It tells of a roistering, 19th century innkeeper on the Cumberland River whose pleasure it is to lead travelers to his spring and then kill and rob them. His son escapes, returns in Act II (twelve years later) unrecognized, and allows himself to die under his father's hatchet. Composer Van Buskirk, who composed his score on piano and tape recorder, gave...
...20th century's beneficiaries of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in "Virtue, Liberty and Independence" might even share this sentiment. A sip of their chlorine-loaded tap water and they understand why Fields shunned the liquid all his life; a trip downtown and they know why he hated the city's narrow, crosshatched streets. A baseball park should be a place to get away from all this, but these days even a trip to Connie Mack Stadium is seldom a pleasure. The Philadelphia Phillies, now the only major-league team in town, are stumbling through their...
...what U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman Roger M. Blough called "our guaranteed annual argument." The 1,250,000-member union, whose two-year contracts with the industry start expiring June 30, will submit a list of 22 demands when new contract negotiations start next week in Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel. Among the proposals...
...League scoring this year with 11 goals, but as a unit, the Varsity finished only fifth in the league. W L Pts. For Agaisnt Yale 5 0 62 18 Dartmouth 3 2 50 40 Princeton 3 2 54 19 Cornell 2 3 44 52 Harvard 2 3 39 56 Penn...