Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years-from the end of World War II to 1960- in which TIME'S circulation doubled and advertising revenues grew from $14 million to more than $50 million. The man under whose business leadership TIME became a substantial international in stitution has now retired from Time Inc. at age...
...surprises began a month after H.L. Hunt's death at age 85. When his will was opened, Ray turned out to be executor with full administrative powers over the estate-possibly because H.L. had doted on Ray as the only son of his second marriage. Discord soon developed between Ray and his three older halfbrothers, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar.* If not eccentrics in H.L.'s mold, they are at least wheeler-dealers. Bunker, in particular, has grabbed headlines with gaudy speculations in silver and soybeans. To resolve the conflict, Ray agreed in mid-1975 to split the empire...
...Complete relaxation. An absolute change in my life. A chance to work off hostilities. Discipline." Wolbert puffs and smiles. "At my age, I'm not going to get faster, so I'd better try and get better...
...buyers? A new breed of collector. No longer confined to nostalgia nuts and little boys with a passion for bubble gum and baseball, baseball card collecting has come of age. Of the more than 100,000 baseball card collectors in the U.S. today, some make as much as $20,000 a year dealing their wares. At the dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more...
...Widower's Son sets up all the obstacles faced by a working-class lad in the 1930s but concentrates on another: the baffle that prevents people from understanding themselves. Left motherless at age seven, William Scorton is raised by his father, a veteran artilleryman who has used the military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field...