Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphreys, owner of Briggs and Briggs, charged the drastic reductions were unwise. "In any line," Humpherys said, "you can't sell merchandise for what you pay for it." On the other hand, John H. Waugh, manager of Minute Man Radio Co., has defended the new price decreases as wise in its policy, and has slashed prices at his store up to 40 percent...
...Among them: Novelist Evelyn Waugh, Pamela Churchill, ex-daughter-in-law of Sir Winston, Murder-Trial Lawyer John Maude...
...potentially first-rate summer series that, so far, has had trouble getting off the ground. The first program was a painstaking, rather flat dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis' The Consul. The commercials plug a different Chrysler...
...Nominated Samuel C. Waugh, 63, a Lincoln, Neb. banker, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, succeeding Harold F. Linder...
...West German Foreign Office received a complaint from the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn charging that British Novelist Evelyn Waugh had "crudely insulted" Marshal Tito in an article written for the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur. The story concerned the time Tito received his first marshal's uniform hat as a gift from the Russians. Wrote Waugh: "I well remember the day when Tito wore it for the first time. It was on the island of Vis, where he lived in August 1944, under the protection of our Navy and our Air Force. The hat was not made to order, according...