Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training, Wilmenrod, 52, owes his success to his lip-smacking, butter-and-ego personality. When he was an infant, says Clemens, his finely tuned palate rejected sour bottles that adults figured were perfectly sweet. All through his years of playing the provinces, he claims to have cultivated his "sixth sense for gourmandise" (a French girl friend was his most valuable assistant). Not until he had been on the air for two years did Wilmenrod ever bother with anything as stultifying as a professional cooking course...
...sixth time since the end of World War II, the United Steelworkers of America had walked out in a nationwide steel strike. Cold were the furnaces of two dozen steel firms that employ 500,000 workers and make 85% of the nation's steel...
...noted that during the two greatest periods of creativity, ancient Greece from the sixth to the fourth century B.C. and the Renaissance from 1500 to the present, great scientific discoveries and important works of art have been produced simultaneously. This seems to indicate that once a creative spirit seizes a society, it is one spirit manifested in numerous ways...
...jazz combo's one-night stand. Any bash that lasts as much as two nights is in danger of becoming a festival. Last week, under a hot July sun, jazz festivals started erupting across the land. As usual, the major hostilities started at Newport. Now in its sixth year and still the most prestigious of the lot, the Newport festival regularly attracts the royalty of the summer circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival is extravagantly promoted, strenuously recorded and religiously...
...FORTUNE'S" NEW LIST of the 500 biggest U.S. industrial corporations in 1958 showed some changes in the top ten. Chrysler, which was sixth in 1957, dropped to eleventh; Bethlehem Steel, which was ninth, dropped to twelfth. Newcomers: Texaco and Western Electric. The top ten: G.M. ($9.5 billion in sales), Jersey Standard ($7.5 billion), Ford ($4.1 billion), G.E. ($4.1 billion, and up a notch from '57), U.S. Steel ($3.5 billion, down a notch), Socony Mobil Oil ($2.9 billion), Gulf Oil ($2.8 billion), Swift ($2.6 billion), Texaco ($2.3 billion), Western Electric ($2.2 billion...