Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, when she was only eleven, pretty, brown-eyed Melody Sachko (rhymes with Natch, Joe) had plodded through to the finals of the annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. But that time, the Pittsburgh policeman's daughter tripped over atelier (she spelled it "ate-lia") and wound up in sixth place. Then Melody's mother, Natalie, took over. She drilled Melody over the dishwashing, left her little time for her favorite diversion: shooting pool in the basement. Thumbing through dictionaries, Natalie Sachko typed out some 25,000 words-each with its correct pronunciation and meaning-on individual...
...last year's district finals, Melody, a straight A student at Pittsburgh's Carrick Junior High, muffed thyrsus, placed second. Natalie Sachko rolled up her sleeves and stepped up the training program, saw to it that Melody pored over the word slips for at least an hour each night, upped it to three hours as the Bee buzzed nearer. ¶as in Deciduous. When the Big Test came in Washington's Commerce Department auditorium one day last week, Melody felt that she was as ready as she would ever be. But so did 62 other crack young...
...America last week opened what U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman Roger M. Blough called "our guaranteed annual argument." The 1,250,000-member union, whose two-year contracts with the industry start expiring June 30, will submit a list of 22 demands when new contract negotiations start next week in Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel. Among the proposals...
...Protestant seminaries each spring the fledgling ministers come, eager for service and responsibility as God's men in the world. What happens then? An explicit answer came last week from Sociologist Samuel W. Blizzard Jr. of Pennsylvania State University, who gave the Greater Pittsburgh Ministerial Union a preliminary report on a 2½-year, $40,-000 survey, financed from the Russell Sage Foundation. Subject of the survey: the requirements of the modern ministry...
After burning up the prairie country for five or six years, Welk-who had now taken charge of the band and toned down his music-got a playing date in Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel, where the band wore white tie and tails that "hid the farm a little but didn't hide all of it." Welk went on network radio in Pittsburgh and began to be known nationally, was good enough by 1947 to fill in for Guy Lombardo in Manhattan. Since 1951 Welk has been playing regularly at the Aragon, an ancient ballroom in Venice, Calif...