Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with AEC's account...
Life jackets were dropped, lost or thrown aside in the crush and panic. Some passengers could not swim, others cringed inside the cabin in fear of the shark-infested sea. In six minutes the plane sank. A few survivors, who had scrambled out, reached the island. Others floated in the water until Coast Guard boats, guided by the eerie swaying light of plane-dropped flares, picked them up. Of the 81 aboard, 53 were lost, including Pilot Cockrill and the five infants, all but three of the 20 women...
...Camp & Campus. Jack McCloy's first steps were taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard...
...three placed among the five highest scorers in the six-hour exam, which was given simultaneously in colleges all over the United States and Canada...
Like many another paintmaker, Cleveland's Glidden Co. was running into trouble. Its sales for six months were 20% below the same period a year ago; even its new, fast-drying "Spred-Satin" paint was selling slowly. But Glidden's tall, lean President Dwight P. Joyce was not one to take it lying down. Tired of "too much talk about business conditions and not enough action," he rounded up 32 of his top executives and dispatched them one Saturday morning to 28 Cleveland retail stores to peddle paint...