Word: carmichael
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...publishers are currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. Actually, the song was born in the summer of 1927, but its fame was delayed. It all began when a young Indianapolis lawyer named Hoagland Carmichael went back for a visit to Indiana University. He "spent the lonely night, dreaming of a song," and he liked it. He found a piano and picked out the tune. It was a lively little ditty, and that was the way Hoagy, as piano man with the famed Jean Goldkette orchestra, played it the next year. It bothered almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded...
...poise, personality, and general appearance, the winner will follow the reign of Marie Winn '58. The contestants include Anne Baker of Whitman Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Elizabeth Bulkely Borden of Briggs Hall and Concord, Mass., Elizabeth Holland Carleton of Holmes Hall and New Canaan, Conn., Cynthia Stuart Carmichael of Cabot Hall and Perryburg, Ohio, and Mary Lou Severn of Moors Hall and Norwick, Conn. The judges also picked another finalist, Mary Louise Nunes of Moors Hall and East Providence, R.I., who is unable to attend the final selection this evening...
Houses & Wives. To find out exactly why airmen were refusing in droves to "re-up,"' Carmichael set the Air Force Statistics Control Division to work. Questionnaires were sent to every twentieth airman: the returns were interesting...
Rights & Incentives. Dick Carmichael and colleagues went to work. President Eisenhower was consulted, and under his sponsorship the 1955 military pay raise bill, with its built-in incentives to reenlist, was passed by Congress. So were measures giving servicemen an extra month's rental allowance for each permanent change of station and offering to men still in the services the home-mortgage rights now enjoyed by veterans...
...Donnell-Carmichael big drive has had its effect. From the 20% re-enlistment rate last year, the figure has moved up to an alltime high of 42% for this July and August. Carmichael now has his eye set on a new goal: a re-enlistment rate of 60%, unheard of in U.S. military history...