Word: norman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to contain one's anger when viewing the fuzzy projections of fuzzy minds and crude fingers which are forced upon a skeptical public by ... art critics, when the work of such able men as Norman Rockwell is sneered at as "commercial...
...defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
Presidential Timber (Wed. 8:30 p.m., CBS Television). Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas...
...mysterious annex housed huge new presses, a topnotch photo lab, a complete city room-facilities to turn out another paper as big as the morning Times itself (circ. 400,000 daily, 800,000 Sunday). Publisher Norman Chandler had just appointed 40-year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley...
...trade. Soon after taking over, he put B. & B.'s sales force on an incentive-pay plan, encouraged unionization, widened out production to include playing cards, pens & pencils, cigarette lighters. His biggest coup was to corner the nation's top commercial art talent (Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Rolf Armstrong) for B. & B. calendars, at a current cost, including other artwork, of $1,250,000 a year. Result: B. & B. became the biggest calendar company in the world (it sells more than all others combined, has 21 foreign outlets). From little more than...