Word: anton
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Illinois. Handsomely greying Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, whose father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...
...clerks stood silently while Chairman Edward C. Werle made an unhappy announcement. For the first time in 22 years the exchange, one of the nation's most exclusive clubs, was expelling a member for "fraudulent acts which endangered a member firm's financial position." The offender: Anton E. Homsey, 53, one of two partners in the Boston firm of DuPont, Homsey & Co. His offense was pledging an estimated $503,000 in securities belonging to three customers as collateral for loans without the customers' knowledge. The exchange's last such case was in 1938, when Richard Whitney...
...their pad; Krapp's Last Tape, a single-actor tour de force about youth and age, on a double bill with The Zoo Story, wherein Playwright Edward Albee creates a critical mass by clanging together a beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally in the U.S. for the first time, providing ample and comic proof that minor Chekhov is equal to the major efforts of most others; and Little Mary Sunshine, off-Broadway's phenomenal, sellout musical that spoofs the candy-coated operettas...
...year, plus an option on 20,000 shares of Lionel stock pegged at 95% of last week's price. He intends to develop Lionel's standard lines of trains and toys, but also to expand gradually into grownup electronics (Lionel proposed a merger with Anton-Imco Electronics Corp. last June). He does not plan to go after Government contracts. Says he: "Development of a large military line is not our prime objective. I don't plan to create a corporate image that depends on the vagaries of the defense business...