Word: ben
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...competence and judgment. At one point, the Heyman group distributed a chart showing how Werner's salary and bonuses had gone from about $160,000 a year to nearly $525,000 at the same time that GAF's stock dropped from $42 to $10. Said GAP Stockholder Ben Alderson before the annual meeting started: "I'm glad to see someone like Heyman upset the canoe. I've had stock for ten years, and I'm not at all satisfied." After a chaotic, three-hour session that was interrupted by arguments over rules of order, Werner...
...future which offers hope." Then he goes on to dazzle us with a Rube Goldberg scheme that would let him have his war and also survive. It is a tragedy that he could not have envisioned a plan for the peaceful sharing of our tiny planet among all peoples. Ben Lane Sollentuna, Sweden...
Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
Then, when the eminent Americans forcibly pressed Augusta National for birdies, the rolling course fitfully responded with bogeys. Unwittingly, Texans Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite overtook them all to finish second, four shots behind Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second Masters victory compared with the first, Ballesteros said, "I tell you, they are both very sweet. But the first is always the best, like when you marry the first time." He is a bachelor...
...1920s, Ben Hecht received a telegram from Herman Mankiewicz, a friend and fellow writer who had made a pioneering trek from New York to Hollywood. Hecht was firmly advised to do likewise: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around...