Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry S. Stonehill resembles the kind of character that the late Sydney Greenstreet used to play in all the old Warner Bros, beaded-curtain thrillers. A blunt, beefy Chicagoan who changed his name from Steinberg in 1942 because "German names at that time weren't very popular," Stonehill built up a $50 million business empire in the Philippines. "Every man has his price," said Harry Stonehill, and in the Philippines after World War II he found that the going rate was fairly cheap; at one time he boasted: "I am the government...
Three years after his death at the age of 76, the will of Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey was probated in Manhattan surrogate court. The blunt, baseball-capped naval hero of World War II, who retired in 1947 to become an International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. executive and a successful dealer in surplus Navy oil tankers, left a bull-sized estate totaling...
...family's building business from hod carrier to director, is a fellow of All Souls, Oxford (and married to an American, Hellen Guggenheimer). Macmillan emphasized the government's aim to expand Britain's health services by bringing into his Cabinet Health Minister Enoch Powell, 49, a blunt, brilliant scholar and poet who was a full professor of Greek at 24, a wartime brigadier...
...owner of first the Cleveland Indians, then the Browns and finally the Chicago White Sox, William Louis Veeck Jr. gave big league baseball its dizziest merry-go-round ride. Now he chronicles his turbulent career in Veeck-as in Wreck (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $4.95), a brash, blunt autobiography that is certain-like everything else he has done-to tickle fans and raise his fellow owners' hackles...
Nothing in recent memory has so shaken the 812,000-member National Education Association as the recent teachers' strike in New York City. The walkout was blunt warning of the new strength of N.E.A.'s rival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. American Federation of Teachers, which today has 80,000 members and is growing fast in the big cities...