Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni by class, some large universities hold separate reunions for graduates of their various schools, prime them with seminars and lectures related to their special interests. Last October, for example, the University of Minnesota held a reunion for its business administration alumni at the St. Paul Hilton, where a banker lectured on tight money and faculty economists examined new approaches to understanding consumer behavior. Vanderbilt offers both specialized and general seminars. Last weekend, alumni of the medical school were treated to a series of discussions on such topics as the new penicillin and the cellular aspects of the immunization mechanism...
...years as chief of the Deutsche Bank, West Germany's largest, Hermann Josef Abs became the most distinguished figure in German finance. Only last year, no less an authority than David Rockefeller, president of the U.S.'s globe-spanning Chase Manhattan Bank, called him "the leading banker in the world." Suave, witty and self-assured, Abs was more than a banker: a confidant and consultant to monarchs and politicians, he became an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and the undisputed éminence grise of German business...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Lady with the Dog is a Russian film based on Anton Chekhov's 19th century story of. . . love affair between a middle-aged banker and a beautiful young lady with a white Pomeranian...
...superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley -a banker's son, an Ivy Leaguer, a Rhodes scholar, a student of philosophy, politics and economics-to sign a pro basketball contract. Not when the New York Knickerbockers are willing to pay him $125,000 a year...
...death of another banker in 1949 marked the Press's major step toward solvency and the capacity to undertake large projects. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., '20, banker, architect, and amateur scholar (American Colonial Printing: Materials for a History), bequeathed about a million dollars to the Press, to be used to publish "inaccessible or hitherto unpublished source material of interest in connection with the history, literature, art (including minor and useful art), commerce, customs and manners, or way of life of the Colonial and Federal periods of the United States...