Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration of free-wheeling individualists toward a hard-hitting, unified report which recommended that expenditures for education be doubled. When it came time to find a successor for Engine Charlie, Ike saw to it that McElroy's name was added to the list of candidates (TIME, July...
...oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised to chip in. Last week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered and much-loved theater (where Charles Dickens first saw his plays produced). Then, with the broadminded blessing of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier ("Leigh often comes to visit us in the country"), she withdrew from the battle for a three-week furlough in Europe's rest areas with her ex-husband Leigh Holman and their 23-year-old daughter...
...years ago a staff member of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts saw a striking pair of portraits in the shop of a Chicago art dealer. They were rare works from the middle period of Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the great German painters of the early 16th century. The 10¾-by-16⅛-in. wood panels, described by experts as among Cranach's finest portraits, show Moritz Buchner, mayor of Leipzig, and his wife Anna, elaborately dressed and richly bejeweled, the man gazing at the world with shrewd but not unkind eyes, the woman modest, grave, rather...
...began a leisurely round-the-world vacation in June with his wife and six children, even trim, tireless Bill Graham felt like shedding the cares of business for a relaxing look at exotic sights. But he could not relax as he saw the grinding poverty and encountered the stifling state control and the huge capital shortage that pervades Asia. "Everybody seemed to be sitting around without hope. Nobody seemed to know about free enterprise and what made it click...
Gilsonite is one of nature's freaks, a petroleum-like substance which, through geologic accident, failed to liquefy. The man who first saw the commercial possibilities of Gilsonite was Samuel H. Gilson, a U.S. deputy marshal in Utah and part-time prospector. One day in the 1880s while prospecting in eastern Utah's Uintah Basin, he found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar...