Word: tulips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollanders everywhere, a Philips' incandescent lamp bulb is as much a symbol of their country as a tulip. Founded in 1891 by studious Gerard Philips, 32, a professor at the Delft Polytechnic School, the company started out in an abandoned tannery making 30 light bulbs a day. Though Philips taught himself and then ten ex-farm hands how to make bulbs, he was no good at selling them. In 1895 the company was up for sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began...
Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business...
...investigation widens, enters the caves of Negro London, from the lichenous flat of Tribal Chieftain Horace Big Cigar to Tulip's, a jazz club where a superbly directed, superbly erotic dance explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens...
...half a dozen companies weighed in with stock splits and higher dividends. Rocket enginemaker Thiokol Chemical Corp., drugmaker Chas. Pfizer and Colgate-Palmolive split three for one, Lily-Tulip Cup two for one. Eastman Kodak, whose stock has nearly doubled in value, to $152.50 a share in the last two years, voted a new share of stock for each one held, then tacked another 9? per share onto its dividend. With that kind of news last week, who could blame anyone for buying a share of U.S. industry...