Word: austin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Herald's mysterious visitor, who called herself Evelyn Hill, produced a news tip that made city-room ears prick up: the Havana whereabouts of Austin Frank Young, 38, Miami-based adventurer who, sentenced to 30 years for conspiring against the Fidel Castro regime, had broken out of a Cuban jail in Pinar del Rio province less than 24 hours earlier...
Equipped only with a fuzzy wire photo of the escaped prisoner, Reporter Buchanan could not be sure that the man he listened to until 1:30 in the morning was Austin Frank Young. But he looked the part-bruised, scratched and haggard. And he had a hair-raising yarn to spill. Scribbling furiously, Buchanan took it all down, airmailed home the fugitive's own account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across...
...ride to the airport, picked up some gauze bandages at a drugstore, knocked on Young's door-and walked right into the arms of three Castro intelligence agents, who had tracked Young to his hideaway. It was only then that Buchanan was certain that his man was really Austin Frank Young...
...Creek, Mich, before he died in 1914. Later, under President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who married Post's daughter Marjorie), the company diversified so fast by buying up other companies that the big shopping bag was renamed General Foods. As it continued to grow under Austin Igleheart, who had joined Postum in 1926 when it purchased his family-run company (Swans Down cake flour), and Clarence Francis, the emphasis in the food business moved more and more from manufacturing to marketing. Thus, when Francis moved up to chairman in 1954, the presidency went to Marketing Expert...
...BRAND Austin, Texas...