Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new job, but of his own small triumph over bureaucracy. At first the State Department, which pays the overseas passage of Ambassadors' wives, ruled that since there had never before been any dealings with an Ambassador's husband, he would have to pay his own way. Anderson kept demanding...
...Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs of all kinds. We're convinced that horror on television is a mistake and bound to bring unfavorable mass reaction sooner or later." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owner of KSD-TV, editorialized: "Dramatic murder ... is older than Sophocles. But ... the most popular dramas have never displayed, as their principal reason for being, bashed heads and riddled bodies. As employed by television, these are the devices of third-rate drama and first-rate irresponsibility...
...N.A.M. followed its recent policy of picking a small businessman as president. Its choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single man, he speaks fondly...
...election also elevated Charles C. Osborne '52 to Narthex, Charles B. Flood '51 to Ibis, and Peter T. Dixon '51 to Treasurer. Frank E. Baker '51 becomes Business Manager, a post which has been reinstituted...
...pleasant fact that the University plans all meals two weeks in advance, down to the very last cabbage leaf. So why don't the dining halls list the breakfast menu along with the lunch and dinner of the day before, and post both outside the dining hall? With the menu outside, undergraduates heading for bed at outrageous hours may make a reasoned decision and be sure whether or not they want to rise for breakfast...