Word: weehawken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1950s, Diebold helped prepare a report on the new science of automating factories. He used it as the basis for a book, Automation, which helped popularize both the word and the author. Then he set up a firm in the attic of his father's house in Weehawken, NJ. Ultimately Engineer Diebold hired businessmen and technicians to work for him while he supervised his firm's growth and actively promoted his ideas and himself. He is currently selling advice to Lockheed, Du Pont, Agfa, Xerox, IBM, Allstate Insurance, Philips Lamp, Westinghouse and 250 other companies...
...remotely like either one of them under the sun. They race against the lights for the hell of it, and when the car pulls up in Monk's block, he skips out and disappears into his old $39-a-month apartment. The baroness then drives home to Weehawken, where she lives in a luxurious bedroom oasis, surrounded by the reeking squalor her 32 cats have created in the other rooms...
...fill the back chairs of his orchestra. In San Francisco, conductors come and go at the whim of J. D. Zellerbach and his fearful board, and in Los Angeles, a conductor who does not take tea with "Buffie" Chandler is likely to find himself conducting in Weehawken...
...many ways, it took Marin 40 years to find himself. Raised by two maiden aunts in Weehawken. N.J. (his mother died nine days after his birth), he attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, drifted from job to job, spent six frustrating years trying to turn himself into an architect. Finally, he went to Paris to study art-and in 1909 had the luck to meet Photographer Edward Steichen. As soon as Steichen got back to Manhattan, he showed a few Marin watercolors to his old friend Alfred Stieglitz, whose now legendary gallery was the first to show such...