Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other interests, he controlled the U.S. Leather Co. (which he liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year-old Boston Post. From then on, the road led down...
...winning design came from the drawing board of 55-year-old David Boyd, a Scotsman whose principal earlier success was the six-meter Circe, which in 1938 beat all comers in the international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall...
...analysis of its educational system as it is likely to get. Source: the fourth report of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.* The authors (among them: John W. Gardner, Carnegie Corporation of New York president; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame; Sociologist David Riesman) are sharply critical of defects in U.S. education, and aware that the nation's future depends largely on whether these defects are mended...
...many of Louis Wolfson's battles and deals, his associate was David B. Charnay, longtime New York Daily News reporter, now chairman and part owner of a Manhattan public relations firm. Last November Wolfson sold a trailer company controlled by one of his interests to Detroit's Trans Continental Industries, of which Charnay is chairman, and it became Trans Continental's chief asset. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered a ten-day suspension of trading in Trans Continental stock on the American and Detroit stock exchanges. Reason: "To prevent fraudulent and manipulative practices...
...nature, this is a book without surprises or scholarly caches of "new material." But it is presented in an admirable new translation by J. David Townsend, a Methodist clergyman in Cohasset, Mass. Above all, it gives evidence on every page that Author Ségur was a war chronicler ranking with Herodotus and Bernal...