Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation that parted him from an inflamed gall bladder; Bestselling Novelist (Ship of Fools) Katherine Anne Porter, 72, who tripped down a dark flight of stairs in her Washington, D.C., home while calling for a kitten, cracking six ribs; and broad-toothed Comedian Joe E. Brown, 70, in Pittsburgh, Pa., melted by 90° heat while playing the Allegheny County Fair...
...Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a bizarre 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning. To revive Pitt, the tycoons resolved to spend $100 million, and to get the job done they hired as chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, who predicted that Pitt would soon emerge as "one of the world's greatest institutions." Pitt...
...recurrent rumor in college-club circles is the formation of an overall "Ivy League Club." Pittsburgh's Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs long ago merged. Merger is considered a last-ditch expedient-especially since so much of a college club's esprit depends on old-school loyalty-but it definitely is in the air. Says President Robert V. Cronin of Manhattan's Brown Club: "The chances of club amalgamation in the future are much greater than for the continued existence of individual clubs...
With the softness in steel, coal and rails, general business activity in the Pittsburgh area, as measured by the University of Pittsburgh, is down to 84.4% of the 1957-59 average. One in ten workers is unemployed, and 156,000 families in Allegheny County are eligible for free federal surplus food. Chicago's economy, though growing, expands at a rate slower than that of the nation as a whole. The city's business is widely diversified, but is light on the fastest-growing industries, such as aerospace and electronics. The fastest-growing regions-the West and the Southeast...
Independents are being squeezed badly. Says Pittsburgh Independent Thomas B. Tomb: "I spend most of my time driving up and down the streets looking over my competitors' prices. One day this week I changed my price twice in two hours." Sometimes the price switches seem mysteriously coincidental; an Indianapolis price war ended just before the 500-mile Memorial Day auto race, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the city...