Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston University dormitory, Freshman John Thomas, 18, gangly (6 ft. 4¾ in.), growing Negro who in February jumped higher (7 ft. 1¼ in.) than any other man in recorded athletic history, slammed shut the latticework gate on an upward-bound elevator. When it rose, Thomas' size 12 left foot was jammed between the car and the shaft walls. Result: severe lacerations and bruises. After surgery, doctors predicted that High Jumper Thomas would be off the sawdust for six to twelve weeks...
...taping his talk shows, Cott hopes to feed them to the rest of the stations affiliated with the National Television Association (he has already sold Bishop Sheen to N.T.A.'s Minneapolis station). By next week Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee will be ready with a show: "Singing, dancing and lots of chitchat." And aging (59) Alex King, though his health is precarious, shows no signs of running down. "I'm under constant sedation for high blood pressure," says he. "Gandhi and St. Ignatius Loyola had high blood pressure too, and we all started with sinful lives...
...forgot one thing-to make the hats pretty. All you have to do is show a woman that she looks prettier with a hat on than off, and money doesn't mean a thing." As hats became pretty again (Designer Victor scored with her flowered hats), sales rose, are expected this year to reach a postwar high...
...constructed General Development on another corporate shell: Detroit's Chemical Research Co. He bought in cheaply, helped steer the company into Florida real estate, in mid-1957 picked up another 520,000 shares at $7.15 each, and went to work to expand the company. General's earnings rose from $2.1 million in 1957 to $6.6 million in 1958, or $2.80 a share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Maria Schell, suffering the pangs of unmarried motherhood, gives an often moving, sensitive performance...