Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with his old friend George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in Carnegie Hall; then, a few days later, a piano recital-the only one he will give all year in Manhattan. Yet in the next fortnight he will play in San Francisco five times. Says he: "Agents [he has none] think I am crazy. But when I go some place, I like to stay awhile. To play, pick up the check and run is silly...
Motormaker Henry Kaiser and Moneyman Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. were a smooth-working financial team. The two friends had floated two issues of Kaiser-Frazer stock, and when K-F needed steel, Eaton had set up a steel company to supply some of it. When K-F decided to float a third stock issue to raise capital for expansion (TIME, Feb. 16), it was Otis & Co. which headed the underwriting syndicate. Last week, Friend Cyrus performed another service for Friend Henry. He gave him a dazzling lesson in high finance that broke...
Winston Churchill, who was not at all a favorite of Cleveland Baptist Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, who enlivened a temperance lecture with his own account of Churchill's preparation for the famed Fulton, Mo. talk in 1946. Confided Dr. Clausen: "He loaded himself with champagne and whiskey and highballs and wine...
...critical piece on the state senate, shyly showed it to a reporter. Next day it was splashed across the top of Page One in the daily Oklahoman. Instead of firing him, the impressed senators promoted him to chief page. When he grew up, Townes trained on the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, went to Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship (1942). Three years later, with Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis, he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal. Townes gingered it up enough to net him a $55,000 profit when he and Davis sold out last year...