Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as a corporate haven for foreign companies. Clint Murchison Jr. soaks up the sun on a private island hideaway at Spanish Cay (rhymes with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres...
...indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left to mug his way through an unplanned 20-minute melee that had the somewhat sweaty aroma of a combination Arthur Murray, Lawrence Welk, Dick Clark free...
...little brother, strontium 89, though they are similar in emitting damaging beta rays. Main difference: Sr-89 decays faster, losing half its activity in 54 days, v. 20 years for Sr-90. But of the two, Sr-89 may be a greater hazard to the unborn child, warned Dr. Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, because an atomic fission bomb produces 160 times as much of it, and 20 times as much as appeared in milk after weapons tests. While Sr-89 does not remain active long enough to harm an adult...
Much of the responsibility for wildly gyrating stocks can be blamed on the exchange and brokers. A new investor's first purchase may be a staid mutual fund. Now, according to Mutual Fund Specialist Arthur Wiesenberger, fast-talking customers' men have been switching customers out of mutual funds into highly speculative stocks with the promise of quick killings. Many a customers' man will offer ways to get around the 90% margin requirements. Customers arrange loans with "specialized finance houses," which permit buying with only 10% down. It is this "easy money" that has caused some rapid rises...
...English Department has announced winners of the annual poetry contest sponsored by the American Academy of Poets. Jonathan Aldrich '59 has received the $100 first prize from the Academy, while Arthur Freeman '59 is runner-up. William L. Coakley '59, Thomas B. Weisbuch '61, and Donald T. Wesling '60 received Honorable Mention...