Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lions! Snakes!" Family life in the roomy, two-story house with the pillared porch flourished on a steady diet of Bible reading and chores, but when these were done, the lusty young Eisenhowers were discharged to tumble in the cavernous hayloft out back, above Uncle Abraham Eisenhower's veterinarian establishment. Milton, frail and spindly from scarlet fever in his fourth year, was a frequent outcast kibitzer, to be seized unawares by mischievous hands and flung bodily into the black haymow amid terrifying cries of "Lions! Tigers! Snakes...
...traditionally unsophisticated Brooklyn, Federated's Abraham & Straus often plugs its goods in sophisticated ads with its slogan ("Do not say you cannot find it until you have shopped at A & S!") spelled out in Latin, Greek, French or Icelandic. It lives up to its slogan by providing such items as lefthanded scissors, cutters for soft-boiled eggs, holders for used tea bags, concave head brushes for bald men (with nylon bristles). While every other major Brooklyn department store has closed or sold out in the past ten years, A & S has grown more prosperous than ever, now boasts...
Ailing Studebaker-Packard announced last week that it was ready for a new try at the auto market with a new car, new financing and new blood. As expected, the new blood was supplied by Abraham M. Sonnabend, an expert at blending tax-loss carry-overs with profits (TIME, Aug. 18), who will now pick up moneymaking acquisitions to balance S.-P.'s $135 million tax carryover. The refinancing comes from 23 banks and insurance companies, which take over S.-P.'s $54.7 million debt in return for $16.5 million in 15-year-notes, and 165,000 shares...
...Marrying Sam of the corporate merger business is a Boston pawnbroker's Harvard-educated son named Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend. In the past four years Sonnabend has mated a score or more moneymaking companies with money losers, using the losers' losses as a tax offset against the moneymakers. In so doing, Sonnabend, who learned to wheel and deal as a Boston and Miami real estate operator, has gained control of a hotel, manufacturing and retail empire with 1957 sales of $179 million. Top earners: Hotel Corp. of America with operating revenues of $63 million, Botany Mills with sales...
FLASHES IN THE NIGHT, edited by William Juhasz and Abraham Rothberg (87 pp.; Random House; $2.50), is a collection of seven short stories by Hungarian writers. Some of the authors took part in the recent revolt and wound up in jail. Some, not all, were Communist Party members, and some stood high in the esteem of their masters. Yet all are aware, in varying degrees, that they and their countrymen are living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because...