Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old mother of four, Mrs. Janice Pollock was having some weird experiences. A manifestly shapely young woman (128 lbs., 5 ft. 6½; waist: 25½; bust: 34½; hips: 35) with handsome brown hair and eyes, she had journeyed from her home in Columbus, Ohio to Jackson, Miss. to compete in a beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return...
...night of triumph, while her sponsors and the losing contestants warmed up at a cocktail party, Mrs. Pollock called her husband to tell him the great news. But Salesman Marion S. Pollock was in an ornery mood. With great abruptness, he told his wife to get her winning combination home "and stop showing it off in Jackson." Weeping openly, Mrs. Pollock packed her bag and took a plane for Columbus...
Died. Channing Pollock, 66, white-maned drama critic, playwright (The Fool, The House Beautiful, The Enemy), voluble lecturer and pamphleteer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shoreham...
...Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers union's Julius Emspak, who has followed the Communist Party line...
Henry Cabell McClelland, Frank Bearss Muhlfeld, John Watson Pollock, Theodore Louis Squier, Jr., Edward Morrill Tuckerman, George Henry Warren...