Word: puller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
Died. Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, 66, stocky, devious, high-priced influence peddler during the Truman Administration; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Wire Puller Grunewald built up a well-placed circle of Washington friends in both parties, came to grief when House investigators first learned, in 1951, that he had bartered his influence to help settle income tax cases (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951 et seq.). The ailing (a series of heart attacks since 1953) Dutchman served only one sentence (90 days for violating probation), twice escaped jail on tax-fixing charges...
...will loose a torrent of color spectaculars in hopes of tottering CBS's rating preeminence. Splashiest of all will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with
...Agree & Regret." After Pate came crusty, gravel-throated Lieut. General Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, five-time winner of the Navy Cross and a living legend of the corps. He barked that the Marines' only mission is "success in battle," added that if "we are to win the next war," the nation's youth must get a lot more of the kind of training that Matt McKeon had tried to give Recruit Platoon 71 at Parris Island. Both he and General Pate, Puller roared, "agree and regret that this man was ever ordered to trial...
...calm returned to the auditorium where the nation's attention had focused for three weeks, a blunt but inescapable truth emerged from the proceedings: the Marine Corps, as Puller said, exists only to teach men how to fight, win and survive in the crudest test of all-war-and because war is cruel, preparation for it sometimes has cruel results...