Word: banker
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...glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly 3,000 objects...
...Sheil's predilections led him into alliance with John L. Lewis, whose CIO was attempting to organize the meat packers and increase their 390 hourly wage. Chicago's hog butchers bitterly resented hierarchical support for the workers. "I want you to remember, your excellency," a Catholic banker told Sheil as the bishop prepared to appear at a CIO meeting, "that the minute you step on that platform you lose your chance to become an archbishop." Sheil eyed the man disdainfully. "You should know," he replied, "that I wasn't ordained a priest to become an archbishop." With...
...from Viet Nam with a taste for grass; some military and civilian observers estimate that marijuana is smoked by as many as half the men below the rank of captain. Although many adults who "blow" pot are sadly overeager to stay young, many others are as unselfconscious as the banker in Minneapolis' rich suburb of Wayzata who regularly lights up a joint with his after-dinner brandy and the 30-year-old Manhattan commercial artist who says that "at the parties I go to, whether or not you smoke marijuana is no bigger a question than whether...
...Vandor, Argentina's leading labor unionist. Uruguay's Tupamaros (TIME, May 16) regularly embarrass the democratic government of President Jorge Pacheco Areco. In June, the Tupamaros set fire to a General Motors building in Montevideo, causing $500,000 in damage. Last week they kidnaped a leading Montevideo banker and announced they would not release him until the government capitulated to the wage demands of 8,000 striking bank workers...
Bookmaking is next up the ladder from the numbers, and the bookmaker, who usually employs several solicitors, is a man of substance. When FBI agents seized Gil Beckley, the king of layoff men (a banker to smaller bookies), in Miami in January 1966, his records showed that on that day alone he had handled $250,000 in bets, for a profit, by his own reckoning, of $129,000. He is now appealing a ten-year prison sentence in the case...