Word: rec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio Corp. of America set a sales rec ord of $286,036,000 for the quarter, bettering last year's mark by 13%, nevertheless saw earnings drop 12% to $7,856,000. But one major factor in RCA's profit drop -the cost of launching color TV -was taking a sharp turn for the better, Board Chairman David Sarnoff reported last week. Since the first week in September, color sales to dealers have tripled. By last week growing demand had forced RCA to put its Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind. color plants on overtime, and the company asked...
...Bernice Nicholls, wife of a polo-playing industrialist, swore that Broady invited her to his office once to hear a tapped recording of an alleged telephone conversation between her husband and ex-Ecdysiast Ann Corio. When Broady asked her if she would like him to make some more rec ords, she declined because, she said, "I was aware of the situation." (The Nicholls were subsequently reconciled, without Broady's dubious assistance.) ¶ Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele said that his telephone had been tapped without his permission or knowledge in 1954, when he was having "matrimonial trouble." Steele...
...ascended the rise to the Wellesley "Rec" (the name of the building where the meeting was held) we could hear the sound of frenzied wood chopping and gleeful shouts. All the good wood choppers had been divided into two teams and were battling to see which team could chop the fastest. A healthy blond girl timed each team, so there would be no disputes. One poor participant on the Blue team stepped up to his log, raised his axe, and buried it six inches in the ground. He said, "I missed," so the crowd around him would not think that...
Since the pig hadn't yet arrived, everyone went into the Rec for singing. There were two guitar players, one with a beard and one with a green shirt, but instead of playing songs immediately, someone started a game called "Treasure Island." Apparently this game wiles away long winter evenings. It looks like a great deal of fun, and perhaps its intricacies can be explained here. Number one player says, "I went to Treasure Island and I took a shoe." Then the second player repeats all this and adds another item, like a banana or something wilder. It goes...
Born in 1877 at Lynn, Mass, Tozzer rec eived his Ph.D. as well as bachelor's degree here. In addition to his other posts on the faculty, he served as chairman of the department of Anthropology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and a number of scientific organizations...