Word: heirlooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heirloom. In Fulton, N.Y., Eugene Crumpton was jailed for 50 days after giving his girl an engagement ring he had stolen from her grandmother...
...ranking heirloom collector of U.S. business is a Pittsburgh millionaire named Thomas Mellon Evans. His heirlooms are old, family-owned business enterprises that have fallen on hard times, and his specialty is modernizing them. Last week Tom Evans, chairman of Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co., Inc., an industrial combine with assets of $57 million, added another heirloom. He took over as board chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Crane Co., the nation's largest manufacturer of valves, fittings and pipes, in a shake-up of 104-year-old Crane's management...
...Heirloom? In Detroit, Fred Whiting, charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained: "That blackjack really isn't mine, your honor. It belongs to my mother...
...girl) will desert in the fall for a town house. Tanner is masterminding the rebuilding of this now-gutted dream house: the brownstone front will be limestone, the ceiling in the maid's sitting room will be knocked out to create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored cars, baroque faucets...
...head of England's great Puritan, open mouth still drawn down in disapproval of a godless generation, glowered for a new master last week. Dr. Horace Wilkinson of Kettering, Northamptonshire, wondered what to do with a family heirloom left by his late father, Canon Horace Wilkinson, the pike-impaled head of Oliver Cromwell...