Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock, where high schools have been closed since last September, U.S. Judge John E. Miller forbade the newly elected school board to transfer school property to private-school groups or impede the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals integration mandate. The court did not order schools reopened, but told board members "to take affirmative steps on their own initiative" to integrate once schools are open, and to report such steps to him within 30 days...
...Pouser, at 123, will wrestle Stan Park, a junior transfer student from Bowdoin who pinned a 137-pounder against UMass. At 137, John Watkins, a Crimson victor against Cornell, faces Dave Lathan, another of the six sophs on the Tech squad...
...Executive Vice President Matthew J. Culligan sells his product with a highly polished Madison Avenue pitch. His patter is as distinctive as his black eyepatch, a souvenir of a losing scrap with a hand grenade during the Battle of the Bulge. He talks in terms of "imagery transfer" (which is simply radio cashing in on established TV advertising slogans, a method of attacking the public's ears while it rests its eyes); "engineered circulation" (urging consumers to use what they have already bought); and "sound thinking" (the proper use of mood music during commercials). During the past month...
...made head of the northeast office in 1928, moved past 16 men to become Pacific Coast manager in 1930, soon chose to transfer to G.E.'s new merchandising department in Bridgeport, Conn, to "get closer to the hub of the corporate wheel." He hiked sales in the electric heating division 60% in four years, became assistant to Bridgeport Boss Charles E. Wilson. When "Electric Charlie" Wilson moved up to become executive vice president of G.E., Ralph Cordiner stepped into his shoes at Bridgeport. He was only...
Cabaret humor is apt to be as brittle as a glass swizzle stick. Moved to the big, turbulent Broadway stage, it usually breaks. But two expert swizzlers have managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells...