Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Harriman made appropriate statesmanoid sounds by delivering a foreign-policy speech to a Democratic "1956 strategy" dinner in Manhattan. Among his hearers were Tammany's Carmine DeSapio, Pittsburgh's Mayor and Boss Dave Lawrence, and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who thinks his green bow-tie talisman may lead him to the vice presidency at least. Another guest, National Chairman Butler, brought encouraging words. A few days before the dinner, he told Albany reporters that "many people around the country" favor Harriman for President...
...Samuel Moor Shoemaker, 61, is a ruggedly handsome divine who thrives on Gilbert & Sullivan and finds the preacher's lot a challengingly happy one. Ever since his unlined face and gentle voice became a fixture in Pittsburgh's Calvary Episcopal Church three years ago, religion has been moving out of the Sunday-morning shadows and into the steel mills and executive suites. The casual young members of the "Golf Club crowd" have found themselves talking religion at cocktail parties and even turning out for Bible-study meetings with "Dr. Sam" at the H-Y-P (Harvard, Yale, Princeton...
This month Dr. Shoemaker and his friends launched a new movement-the "Pittsburgh Experiment." It is designed as a saturation campaign against "nonconductors" in Pittsburgh's business world, to be carried out through small task forces. Explains Shoemaker: "Today . . . the small group is both a sign and an instigator of spiritual awakening...
...Stuyvesant Peabody, Jr., 40, resigned as board chairman of Chicago's Peabody Coal Co., the second biggest U.S. commercial producer. (First: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.) "Stuyve" Peabody was president from 1946 until last year, when the board of directors, alarmed by a $636,855 loss in the fiscal year ending April 1954. moved him up to board chairman and put Executive Vice President Otto Gressens, 57, in as president. Gressens, who had been hired away from Illinois Commonwealth Edison in 1951, cut costs by closing some mines in southern Illinois, expects to report earnings...
Captain Ken Culbert led the varsity scoring, finishing third at 177. Culbert, who placed fourth last year, got falls in preliminary quarter-final bouts before he eventual champion Solomon, of Pittsburgh, overpowered...