Word: washings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer of carbonic gas and dry ice (1954 net sales: $51 million), succeeding William A. Brown, who resigned last month after control of the company passed to a stockholders' group. Texas-born, Nicholson has been successively a cattle dealer in Amarillo (1910-24), a construction superintendent in Tacoma, Wash. (1924-37), assistant administrator of the Federal Works Agency, Western Division (1937-44), since 1945 president of Pacific Tractor & Implement Co. of Richmond, Calif...
Mission Accomplished. In Seattle, Wash., Earl Frederick Sunde, on parole from a sentence for second-degree burglary, admitted to police that he had stolen a car to make regular visits to his parole officer...
...Over the weekend, McCann studied the Whitman transcript and turned out a second draft, or "Revise No. 1," which he sent off to the President at Denver. McCann then thankfully took off with his wife for a seven-day vacation on the sunny island of Tobago "to wash the whole thing out of my mind." As it turned out, he had done only about two-thirds...
...whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it-wash my hands...
...when she was 17, Maggie married Benny Tomasello, whose greatest virtue (in Maggie's eyes) was his modest record as a petty criminal. In 1944, after she had a baby girl, Maggie divorced Benny. Four years later she married Bobby O'Connor. While hanging out the wash, she used to boast to neighbors about what a good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby...