Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson, 33, is shorter (5 ft. 9 in.) and chunkier than Henry, and more of a desk man. For a while he liked nightclubs more than the office. But now he is the hardest worker of the three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into...
...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...
Actually, the only substantial disadvantage to Claverly has been its Siberian stigma. The rooms are as good, and the walk to classes actually shorter than from the Houses. But because Claverly in recent years has been filled with cast-offs from the House Selection process, the idea across that the "outhousers" were to be scorned...
...bumper crop of war babies helped the business to get back on key; so did the shorter work week, which provided more leisure time to enjoy music. Nowadays, some 2,000 U.S. cities have classical-music concerts each year, twice as many as before the war. Says President R. C. (for Reuben Charles) Rolfing of Chicago's Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest piano maker in the U.S.: "People are getting back more & more to wanting to do something for themselves-entertaining themselves." Many piano makers, such as Cincinnati's Baldwin Co., have helped the boom along with smart styling...
...unpegged" market, i.e., the Federal Reserve is not committed to support the bonds at any fixed price. With the new $2 billion issue, Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey hopes to raise $1 billion in cash - his first venture into the new-money market-and refund a like amount of shorter-term savings bonds due in the next few months...