Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
...true, said Ike, that the U.S. brier pipe industry is in a slump. Sales of pipes have dropped from 20.7 million in 1948 to 14 million, and employment and production are down. But the slump was not caused by foreign imports; they have increased by only 2,000,000. Said the President: "It seems apparent that the major part of this loss has been due to decline in consumer demand . . . In recent years, there has been a clear and sharp decrease in pipe-smoking in this country...
...Truman Administration from 1948 to 1950, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a test of the "conflict of interests" statute, the first criminal indictment under the law. The charge: Lawyer Bergson represented three companies (Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., the Carborundum Co. of Niagara Falls and United States Pipe Line Co.) in actions before the antitrust department in 1951, after having acted against them while a trustbuster. The law prohibits a former federal official from representing clients with "claims" against the Government for two years if he was involved in the matter while in office. Maximum penalty on conviction...
...then, the new $150,000 arena now being completed adjacent to Dillon Field House, will be put to its first formal use. Then, over 1800 gallons of cooled brine will speed through ten miles of pipe every minute, and eight sets of 6000-watt light fixtures will illumine a 200-by-35-foot playing surface...
...named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone and smoke his pipe...