Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took over the company in 1943 from his father Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated tobacco machine. After World War II, Morehead Patterson decided that the company had to grow or die. Searching for new products, he turned up a crude prototype of an automatic bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected and put on the market in 1951, helped to turn bowling into the most popular U.S. competitive sport. Despite keen competition from...
...pioneer trend setter has been KMOX, CBS's St. Louis station, whose 50 kw., clear channel signal sweeps the plains and burrows into the valleys of a large part of mid-America. Last year General Manager Robert Hyland, fed up with 24 hours of music, decided on a final gamble before getting out. His novel plan: skip the disks for four prime hours daily and substitute news, interviews, listener questions and erudite conversationalists. After what Hyland recalls was "the longest pause in broadcasting," station staffers agreed to give...
Since osteopathy was founded by an M.D. named Andrew T. Still in 1874, it has steadily moved away from Still's reliance on the manipulation of bones, muscles and ligaments as a cure for all manner of aches and agues. The Lightning Bone Setter, as Still was known, thought that "the human engine is God's medical drugstore," but the average osteopath today prescribes more drugs for his patient than the average M.D. and uses musculoskeletal therapy as only an adjunct to surgery, X rays, serums...
Leading off in the relay, Harvard's Alan Engelberg came in a body-length behind Navy's Don Diget, despite the fact that he covered his hundred in 51.0. Bill Zentgraf roared out after the pace setter, and nearly threw himself out of the pool with a vigorous turn after his first 25 yards. Even though he made another had turn and almost swam into the ropes, Zentgraf contributed a 50.5 leg and brought the Crimson even with Navy...
...Bingham 880 for New England college runners, captain Fred Howard held onto second place for most of the race. Before the gun lap Howard attempted to catch the pace-setter, Wesleyan's Steve Paranya, but an old Howard nemesis, Art Freeman of B.U., moved up on the outside and foiled Howard's bid. Howard finished in third place 20 yards behind Paranya and ten yards behind Freeman...