Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...olds. When young singers are signed, they usually get new, tongue-tempting names, are advised how to dress and behave before the great public and carted off to woo the hit-making disk jockeys in a well-traveled circuit of key pop cities: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh (neither New York nor Washington is regarded as a reliable pop town). If, as a result, a singer "lights the board" in a key city, the rush to build a new hit is on. Some of the potential future hitmakers now being hopefully groomed by the industry...
Most businessmen assume that the rapidly rising U.S. population, expected to top 220 million by 1975, will progressively strengthen the nation's prosperity by creating more workers, new consumers, bigger markets, faster sales, greater industrial expansion. Last week Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing...
Born. To Ralph Kiner, 34, onetime Pittsburgh Pirates' home-run king (lifetime total: 367), who retired in 1955, and Nancy Chaffee Kiner, 28, onetime tennis star: their first daughter, third child; in San Diego. Name: Katherine Chaffee. Weight...
...magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
...After a raucous career dedicated to every known form of umpire baiting, Pittsburgh Pirate Manager Bobby Bragan is used to getting thrown out of ball games. Last week, for a change, he was thrown out of his job. "This time," said Bobby, "I broke the oldest rule in the book. When the team doesn't win, the manager has to go." The eighth-place Pirates will finish the season under Coach Danny Murtaugh...