Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fired all the Same. O'Hara had some special ink for the men who canceled him. "When syndication is involved," he wrote in his final column, "a bush-league editor likes to king it on his remote little throne. His paper may be paying something like $15 a week for a column, but the editor can play big shot by 'firing' a writer he has never met, is not likely to meet, and never should meet. The editor has convinced himself that he, like my movie producer, can bang out as good a column...
...Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash...
Shored Remains. Meanwhile the Tunku was busy shoring up what remains of the federation. Clad in bush jacket and white straw hat, he flew to Kuching, capital of Sarawak state, where politicians were a bit miffed that the Singapore secession had been arranged without consulting other Malaysian states. After some explaining, Abdul Rahman assured Chief Minister Stephen Kalong Ningkan and his Cabinet that they were vitally needed in the federation. Ningkan, well aware that Sarawak lacks the resources to support itself if independent, said Rahman's visit should "do a great deal to dispel whatever anxieties our people...
Conservatively built, the partners' realm has survived the general shake-out of real-estate syndicates since 1962. Some recent acquisitions, such as the 35-acre Bush waterfront terminal in Brooklyn, have been financed with only a few wealthy partners, and increasingly, Wien and Helmsley have been able to swing deals all by themselves. The Schine purchase, made without partners, brings them twelve hotels (including Miami's faded Roney Plaza and Los Angeles' first-class Ambassador), 62 theaters in the East and Midwest, and a community antenna-TV system in Massena...
...Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series at Chicago's Natural History Museum; the American War Memorial at Epinal, France; a flagpole for IBM; a road marker for Milliken Mills. Now 80, she tells all about everything in this book of leisurely, ladylike reminiscences...