Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that Stewart will be a thoroughly competent armchair general, it came last week in a fine CBS-TV documentary program (Cowboy Five Seven) about the Strategic Air Command. The filmed show's producer-director-narrator: Stewart. His promotion will be official after certain Senate approval this week...
Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...
...This is really the big time," grinned a shrewd, hearty Canadian named Roy Thomson last week. "Have you ever heard of anything bigger?" Few had: Roy Thomson, 65, already owner of 27 papers in Canada, seven in the U.S. and nine in Scotland (plus TV stations on both sides of the Atlantic), had just agreed to pay $14 million for most of Britain's great Kemsley chain, including twelve provincial papers and three Sunday nationals, one of them the Sunday Times.* Combined circulation of Thomson's acquisitions : 14 million...
...million tons, a two-month supply, and the nonstruck 15% of the industry is adding to them at top-speed rate of 1,200,000 tons a month. Speaking for many an industrialist, Chairman Robert Black of White Motor Co. said: "We began preparing for this strike six or seven months ago. We've got a 60-to 90-day steel stock. But you never know-one missing item can stop your production. For want of a nail, a battle can be lost...
Well acquainted with Soviet brass, including Deputy Premiers Anastas Mikoyan and Frol Kozlov (whom he hosted in Manhattan), Winston smoothed the way for getting the U.S. show into the U.S.S.R. during seven self-paid trips to Moscow. Acting in an advisory capacity, he backed up the hard work of Exhibition General Manager Harold C. Mc-Clellan and his fulltime staff. The Soviet government respects Winston's business know-how, has invited him to Moscow three times for counsel on home building. Unlike Fellow Capitalist Cyrus Eaton (TIME, Jan. 19), Winston caustically criticizes Communism and all its works. Says...