Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Harlow Curtice has never slowed his pace. Up at 6 a.m. every morning, in his suite in the G.M. building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features...
...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
After a honeymoon visit to Ike's family in Abilene, Kans.-and a bitter quarrel over Ike's imperturbable refusal to come home from a hometown poker game until 2 a.m.-Mamie joined the Army. It was often a trying life; in one year she had to set up housekeeping on seven different Army posts...
...demand for a quota followed a secret meeting of unofficial representatives from 20 Christian fraternities. "According to the official minutes of the meeting, public relations were discussed and suggestions included personal interviews for admissions, various projects undertaken by alumni and fraternities to alleviate the problem, as well as hometown University-sponsored publicity departments to spread the name of Penn to a greater number of college prospectives," claimed the Pennsylvanian...
...baseball's greatest hitters (a lifetime average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds; of a heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from his liquor store in Greenville, he periodically protested that...