Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit for his current success, says Hoak, belongs to one man: Redleg Manager Birdie Tebbetts. Like everyone else who has seen Don play since he left the sandlots of Roulette, Pa., Birdie recognizes the signs of greatness. But unlike Don's earlier managers, Birdie knows how to help his man use all his talent all the time. "The big thing about Birdie," says Third Baseman Hoak, "is that he won't let his ballplayers build up pressure. Besides changing my stance at the plate, he cut down my swing and has me moving around more in the batter...
...play combinations in baseball. The Redlegs, who started the season slowly, are all playing their own game by now, at week's end were on top in the pennant race thanks to a twelve-game winning streak. "Some players," said modest Manager Tebbetts as he tried to disclaim credit for such crowd-pleasing play, "have to be on a winning club to do their best." Winning certainly seemed to suit ex-Castoff Don Hoak...
Today an Indian-summer mood appears to have settled over Picasso and his work. Credit for Picasso's contentment is given by friends largely to Jacqueline, who runs the house, tenderly cares for "Pablito," and delights him by making his favorite Spanish sausage, chorizo, or a surprise dessert of Turkish halvah. Jacqueline has also served as model for the series of 50-odd paintings such as Woman by a Window (see left), that Picasso had turned out using his new Cannes studio as a theme...
Typical deal: a foreign airline wants seven Boeing 707 jets at a cost of $36 million. Rather than tie up its own working capital or dilute its lines of credit, it is dickering for a lease. National Equipment plans to borrow the money from institutional investors, buy the planes and lease them. National Equipment's client will rent each plane for eight years, and pay off the full purchase price in rental installments. The lessee will also pay interest on the loans and a fee (usually ¼% to 2%, although some go as high as 6%) to the leasing...
...high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with pay, attending college-level technical and engineering classes to get credit toward college degrees...