Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark corner in a large cage in a Pittsburgh zoo sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla from Central Africa. But Jambo is not only melancholy and underweight--he is neurotic...
...Pittsburgh's fashionable Hotel William Penn ballroom one night last week, the city's 88-piece symphony orchestra, one of the best in the U.S., became for a little while a gay and lilting dance band. Waltzing to Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods, and applauding from the $100 boxes were civic and business leaders of Pittsburgh and their wives. The occasion was the TIME of Your LIFE Ball...
Every year the Women's Association of the Pittsburgh Symphony Society sponsors a ball, the city's outstanding social event, for the benefit of the 60-year-old orchestra, whose first conductor was Victor Herbert. This year, I am pleased to report, the association chose TIME Inc. publications for both title and decorative inspiration. Amid the pageantry of the ball, bejeweled women and their white-tied escorts moved from room to room, each of which was styled after a TIME Inc. publication. There were, for example, imitation gold coins and a wheel in the FORTUNE Room, putting greens...
Spreading put to heavy industry, the news was all of records and booming fourth-quarter sales. Inland Steel, Republic Steel and Pittsburgh Steel all had peak years, with earnings up as much...
...shall be built into an effective and dominating force in American politics. He speaks of this, not in any narrow partisan sense, but from his point of view that a national need exists for an organism that reflects the platform, principles and objectives for which he has stood." In Pittsburgh U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. summed up the Eisenhower record and the "great fact that we have prosperity without inflation, without waste, and with an excellent chance of a balanced budget; and that we are having this prosperity without war and without war orders...