Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British army in World War I, returned home and went into glass manufacture, did so well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president...
Grote computed the average heights and weights of National Leaguers of 1956 and those of 1936. He found that the composite first baseman today is 6 ft. 2½ in. tall and weighs 203 Ibs., 3 in. taller and 24 Ibs. heavier than the oldtimers. Third basemen are 2 in. taller and 18 Ibs. heavier than those of 20 years ago. Outfielders average 20 Ibs. heavier. Scientists have long known that each generation of Americans is larger than its predecessor, but the trend to larger, stronger ballplayers is not merely the result of genetics and good diet. Choke batters like...
...Opportunity never knocks on the door," said Thomas John Watson. "You have to knock on opportunity's doors, and they are all around us." Tall and spare with a kindly, canny Scots face, T. J. Watson did not knock hard enough for opportunity's door to open wide until he was 40. But then, he transformed Manhattan's tiny Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. into International Business Machines Corp., a company that now circles the globe with 188 U.S. offices and six plants, another 227 offices and 17 smaller plants in 80 nations. For his hard knocking, opportunity...
Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty, wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches...
...pregnant by one man, is about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation in which many Hokinson-type matrons might like to find themselves, but Antonia prefers looking backward to the scenes of her foolish youth, when the worst disaster life had to offer was an unsuitable organdy dress her ringmaster-mother obliged her to wear...