Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the Chicago Black Hawks piled up the sorriest record of any team in major-league hockey-a game played almost exclusively by Canadians living in or visiting the U.S. in pursuit of their trade.*In all that time, the Black Hawks managed to finish as high as third only once, wound up dead last in nine of the past twelve seasons. But this year everything suddenly changed. To the astonishment of their most devoted supporters, the revitalized Hawks are second in the National Hockey League standings...
...into a more luxurious, ten-room apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue (there was a splash of newspaper publicity when the landlords on the fashionable East Side refused to rent to a Negro family). Belafonte has collected contemporary paintings and Haitian sculptures, in the vocabulary of his trade cares little for clothes (twelve suits, eight sports jackets, three tuxedos), owns no real estate. He drinks little (he has no head for liquor), neither diets nor exercises regularly to keep in his famed trim, although he concedes that "nothing would destroy the illusion faster than a belly." When...
After 32 years, Tide ebbed last week in a sea of red and disappeared. A trade magazine for admen, Tide was founded by TIME Inc. in 1927, sold in 1930, and drifted through a series of ownerships before Bill Brothers Publications (Sales Management, Rubber World) gave it a whirl in 1956. In a field dominated by Advertising Age (1958 circ. 41,961), Tide was always out. Last week the magazine was absorbed (estimated price: $150,000) and closed out by Vision, Inc., a closemouthed Madison Avenue publishing house that operates a grab-bag set of properties...
...wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision, and hope for a change in publishing trade winds...
...prize he wins after proposing to her and being accepted. New York pleases him because he can be irresponsible and keep two identities. He really works for a trade magazine with offices on Madison Avenue, but he convinces his fiancee's respectable family that he is on a supersecret Government mission. Still, he is forced to admit to himself that his double life is vapid: "Nothing is wrong with my days, but they are pallid and dull me ... I am not undernourished...