Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER TIME did a cover story six weeks ago on Massachusetts Investors Trust's Dwight Robinson, the result was, says Robinson, "an avalanche!" Into M.I.T.'s Boston headquarters poured letters from every U.S. state, as well as Bolivia, India, Spain, Kenya, Mozambique-65 countries in all. Last week the avalanche was still rumbling...
...selling them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson & Co. cautiously made no sales pitch, but advised the man to sell his stock. Next day the stock plunged five points...
...Office of Rent Stabilization in 1953, and sued for telling the press that his "first official act" would be to suspend two employees who had been mixed up in a manipula: tion of ORS funds; and 2) Admiral W. E. Howard Jr., who, as commanding officer of the Boston Naval Shipyard, reported to Congressmen-with copies to the press -that the shipyard would soon withdraw recognition of a union, and was sued by the union...
...boats up the Thames that the undefeated heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year-old Henley Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling up his Sox: "Ted Williams...
...turn up on the grounds of the six-story, yellow brick Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind. to blow to an audience sprawled on the lawns and perched in the surrounding oak trees, and in Toronto for a four-day blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall...