Word: businessman
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Courtly Scholar. The son of a New York City businessman, Trilling earned both undergraduate and doctorate degrees in literature at Columbia. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1931 as an instructor of English. Two years earlier he had married Diana Rubin, also a distinguished critic, and they had one son James. As he worked toward a full professorship (in 1948 he became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual...
...years Slater had known only success. Trained as an accountant, he got his first break when he answered a newspaper ad placed by a Danish businessman whose English companies were struggling. Slater straightened them out and moved on, eventually becoming the right-hand man of Lord Stokes, then head of Leyland Motors. There Slater developed a keen eye for companies whose assets were worth more than the value of their issued stock...
...INDIANAPOLIS: Former Republican Congressman William Hudnut handily defeated Democratic businessman Robert Welch...
...exact figures are hard to come by, the general trend is nonetheless apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part...
Sadat will this week present Administration officials with a long, detailed list of what Egypt is asking to maintain economic stability and provide its own defense. "What is badly needed is one or two major American investments here in the next year or 18 months," says an American businessman in Cairo. "That would give confidence to others, including the Saudis, to come in on a major scale...