Word: robert
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President Robert F. Goheen, in an open letter to The Daily Princetonian last Thursday, said that the "club elections...are only a fraction of life at Princeton." Observers in Princeton hope that this official endorsement de-emphasizing Bicker, plus the emergence of Wilson Lodge as an attractive alternative to the club system, will promote a more successful Bicker. There are, however "too many variables" inherent in the process, they note, to predict what will happen later this week...
...Other award winners: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun (TIME Cover, Feb. 17), Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert D. Murphy (TIME Cover, Aug. 25), Bureau of Prisons Director James V. Bennett, and Hazel K. Stiebeling, the Agriculture Department's Home Economics Institute director...
Only then did the poet, Robert L. McCulloh, head of the university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...
...independent manufacturer at a competitive disadvantage with Detroit's Big Three automakers? Not at all, answered Chairman Robert F. Black of White Motor Co. last week, as he presented the best possible evidence that his company, the nation's oldest truckmaking firm, is feeling no pain from G.M., Ford or Chrysler competition. On a record $270 million in sales, White earned $6.95 per share in 1958, almost the highest profit in its 59-year-old trucking history, in a year when overall truck sales dropped 18%. Of the profits, $3 per share were racked up in the final...
Rich turned out to be Dalton (Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo. one of the original "Hollywood Ten'' writers who refused to testify at the 1947 hearings on Communism in the movie industry. Said Producer Frank King, who had stoutly insisted that Robert Rich was "a young guy in Spain with a beard'': "We have an obligation to our stockholders to buy the best scripts we can. Trumbo brought us The Brave One and we bought...