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Word: pittsburgh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same all along the Khrushchev banquet circuit, from white tie to rolled sleeves, from the White House to Manhattan, to San Francisco, Des Moines and Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, demands for tickets to the Commonwealth Club's banquet were matching Franklin Roosevelt's historic appearance in 1932. Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom was booked solid for the mayor's lunch (and a visiting convention of dentists, with a prior booking for the ballroom, was not too sure it was going to give up its rights) and again for a dinner sponsored by the Economic Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Can-Can Without Pants? | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Throwing his fork ball with its usual effect, cold-eyed Reliever Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Highlights: two banquets in New York on Sept. 17; an address the next day to the U.N. General Assembly; a luncheon in Hollywood, complete with stars and starlets; sightseeing in San Francisco; a visit to an Iowa corn farm near Des Moines and to the University of Pittsburgh; and two days of conferences with President Eisenhower, possibly at secluded Camp David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Red Flags & Black Armbands | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Theoretically the White Sox should not be able to get off the ground. Until a fortnight ago, when they gambled that Pittsburgh's Ted Kluszewski had conquered his bad back and picked up the muscular first baseman on waivers, the White Sox did not have a man who could clout the long ball. The team trails the majors in home runs with a measly 81; team batting average is .252, sixth in the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Going--Going--Gone? | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Pilot at Eastern | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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