Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-length trouncing of Yale in the annual four-mile pull down Connecticut's Thames River, while California beat Navy by a length in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Syracuse. ¶ After his talent-loaded San Francisco Giants had lost three straight to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates and dropped four games behind, Owner Horace Stoneham fired long-suffering Bill Rigney as manager, brought in Tom Sheehan, 66, chief scout and onetime minor-league manager, with the cold promise that the job was his as long as the Giants...
...interest yourself in a school-board election, but it is seldom meaningful in human terms. In a suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction) and chairman of the board of supervisors of suburban Pine Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about...
...York); Composers Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber, Mt. Kisco (New York); Author John Hersey, Southport, Conn. (New York); Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, Devon (Philadelphia); Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, Greenwich, Conn. (New York); Artist Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford (Philadelphia); Westinghouse Electric Corp. Chairman Gwilym Price, Carnegie (Pittsburgh); United Steelworkers President David McDonald, Mt. Lebanon (Pittsburgh); National Council of Churches President Edwin Dahlberg, University City (St. Louis); Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, Mill Valley (San Francisco); Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, The Highlands (Seattle); Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black, Alexandria (Washington...
...this mood they traveled the U.S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, touching at Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Washington. They were stuffed with facts about the U.S. educational system, fraternity houses, cement plants, free enterprise, soil-conservation projects and a calendar printing plant. They were briefed by State Department officials and rebriefed by professors, Rotarians and students of Hispanic affairs...
Unmoneyed Mellon. Tom Evans, a distant cousin of Pittsburgh's moneyed Mellons, has made a personal fortune on his own estimated at $80 million. After graduating from Yale in 1931, he got a start as a $100-a-month clerk in the office of William L. Mellon, then head of Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer...