Word: leading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...befits an evening of fun, Fiorello! portrays a crusader without ever adopting the tone of a crusade. While pumping lead into ward politics and taking potshots at the Tammany wigwam, it pokes the right touch of fun at Fiorello's own brandished tomahawk. Winningly played by Tom Bosley, La Guardia proves the more engaging for not being too lovable, the more enlivening for not being too reasonable. And as a period piece that comes up with, among other things, battered Pathe news shots, Fiorello! often has an earned nostalgia...
Mortimer moved on the board in 1950, jumped to executive vice president in 1952. The top job was now in view, but Mortimer got hot competition from two company rivals. Chairman Francis was behind Mortimer, recognized that the company needed a strong merchandising man to lead General Foods into the future. When Mortimer became president and chief executive officer, his two rivals left the company...
Food is the biggest industry in the U.S., but with all the $80 billion in sales it generates, the more than 1,000,000 it employs and the 373,000 retail stores it serves, the industry has changed itself completely to lead, cheer and consolidate the revolution. Canned goods are still the old and tested convenience foods, but such startling gains have been made by mixes, frozen food and instant drinks that one in every three of the time-and labor-saving products was unheard of only ten years...
...spirited but sloppy Crimson hockey team dropped its opener Saturday night at McHugh Forum before 4,200 as Boston College rolled up two goals in the first period, then kept its lead to win, 4 to 2. Though playing without two first line starters, B.C. still managed to pepper Crimson goalie Willy Henderson with 49 shots, almost twice the number made by the varsity...
After a sluggish beginning for both teams, second line center Stew Forbes gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead when he took a pass from Jim Dwinnell and laced the puck past goalie Jim Logue into the lower right hand corner of the cage at 10:23 of the first period...