Word: radishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank R. Armour Jr., 50, was elected president of H. J. Heinz Co., the first non-Heinz to hold the job since the firm started as a horse-radish distributor in 1869. He succeeds H. J. Heinz II, who became chairman of the board. Armour (no kin to Chicago's meat-packing Armours), went to work at Heinz in 1927 as a visitors' guide, held 57 varieties of jobs within the company. He worked in sales and advertising, became general manager of manufacturing in 1946, a vice president in 1949, executive vice president in 1957. Armour will...
...Horse-Radish." "More platter, less chatter!" cries Manager Ben Strouse of Washington, D.C.'s eminently profitable WWDC, which features "Lucky Buck" giveaways. "All network radio is good for is to supply soap opera to a dwindling number of little old ladies weaned on that sort of thing." As for the independents' news coverage, Bill Shaw, manager of San Francisco's booming KSFO, snorts: "People are more interested in a fire down the street than in the Lebanon crisis...
...Rizzoli; I.F.E.), a sequel to The Little World of Don Camillo (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), continues the slapstick story of Fernandel, a quirky priest who talks both to and back to God. and Gino Cervi, a hot-tempered Communist mayor whose redness seems no deeper than that of a radish...
...Radish-Red Admiral. Wilson called in a whole task force of top Pentagon personnel for a blistering, table-thumping session which started with midday lunch and ended after 6 p.m. Frequently during the afternoon. Wilson tapped with thumb and forefinger on a memorandum written by Parks and Cutter which, like the U.P. story, described the Nautilus as a "test vehicle." But a radish-red Admiral Parks stoutly denied that he had leaked the story...
...around. "American tastes," says Clem, "are moving toward greater simplicity. Now one really good dish plus a good vegetable and a salad makes a dinner. Salads have come into great popularity-there's hardly a meal without them." To make a salad is simple. Take a radish, not just an ordinary radish "but a tiny radish of the passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white...