Word: butler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...techniques employed at Susse are "lost wax" and "sand casting." The lost-wax method of classical and Renaissance sculptors was revived by Susse especially to cope with the intricate broken surfaces of such moderns as Richier, Reg Butler and Giacometti. A plastic mold of the model is constructed and provided with a system of vents. A wax skin the thickness of the desired bronze is then spread over the inside of the mold, and the core is filled up with plaster. Then the wax is melted away through the vents, and molten bronze poured in. When the bronze cools...
...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...
...Churchill made any utterance in the House of Commons. But one afternoon last week both sides of the House rose to cheer Churchill as he shuffled to his accustomed seat. It was his 85th birthday. After hearing congratulations from Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory House Boss R.A. ("Rab") Butler, the old man rose slowly to break his long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated the anniversary at their Hyde Park Gate home, which they had fled a day earlier...
...smell of tobacco emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...
Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...