Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...Reward of Patience. Other scientists were not convinced that Dr. Hisaw had discovered anything, because relaxin proved incredibly elusive. But at the University of Wisconsin he had a graduate student named Robert Kroc, who was not only convinced but determined to put Dr. Hisaw's discovery to use. In 1944 Kroc went to work in the laboratories of the Maltine Co., now part of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories. After an expenditure of eleven years and an estimated $1,000,000, Kroc found a way to apply the pocket gopher's hormone to the human female...
...Raymond Edgar Rowland, 53, was elected president of Ralston Purina Co., succeeding Donald Danforth, who remains board chairman and chief executive officer of the world's largest feed manufacturer (annual sales: $400 million). Born in Illinois, educated at the University of Wisconsin, Rowland is the first nonmember of the Danforth family to head the firm in its 62 years. He joined Ralston as a salesman in 1926, by 1940 was special assistant to the production vice president, three years later himself became production vice president. Retiring President Danforth, son of the company founder, told employees that addition...
...Admirals jumped into an early lead, rowing a lung-bursting 41 strokes a minute. But the younger college boys in the other crews hung on. Undefeated Cornell was closest, followed by Washington, Yale, Wisconsin. The Admirals could not keep it up. Slowly, the big Yale crew inched by; Cornell crept up. In the last 500 meters the Admirals made a final bid. It failed, and they fell back. The triumphant Yale crew slipped past the finish to win the Olympic berth by an easy three-quarters of a length over Cornell, whose closing drive brought them in second, a full...
Cloying Limit. In Fort William, Ont., eight Wisconsin anglers were fined $800 and had $400 worth of fishing tackle confiscated after bringing in 162 pickerel (legal limit: 48), explained: "We were tired of the bologna diet back home...