Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scarcely two months have gone by since the magazine's trustees took the first definite step toward getting the publication back into print with the appointment of a committee of interim editors headed by mild-mannered, pipe-smoking Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47. In the Advocate rooms between Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets, the editors have sorted graduate and undergraduate contributions in an attempt to put together a magazine of "general reader interest" and jolt their charge out of the esoteric mire that drugged circulation down to some 800 copies...
Button, Button. In Spokane, Frank Bunker received from WAA 60,000 yards of thread, 50,000 shirt buttons, a barrel of laundry ink thinner, wondered what puzzled laundry was opening up the pipe, rivets and steel he thought he had ordered...
...Friday is an experienced young journalist named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were...
Wisconsin's common folk, with an air of affectionate proprietorship, called him "the old man." They liked to think of the big, rumpled man in the governor's chair, puffing his pipe, nibbling cheese, his voice rumbling, his massive head wagging like an amiable St. Bernard's. Some might disagree with his basically conservative Republicanism. But everyone agreed that Governor Walter Samuel Goodland was honest to the point of truculence. He was also, at 84, the oldest state governor in the nation's history...
...pipe will be made by U.S. Steel Corp. and Consolidated Steel, which it recently arranged to buy (TIME, Dec. 30). The purchase was held up at least temporarily last week by U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, who ruled that it was in violation of antitrust laws. U.S. Steel will produce the steel-an estimated 300,000 tons-at its Geneva plant. Consolidated will fabricate it in Los Angeles, start delivering it by year...