Word: defunction
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...covering sports for the Herald and the now defunct Boston Transcript from 1912 to 1961, Carens was a devotee of all athletics at Harvard and became known to scores of players, alumni, and Athletic Department officials. He had not missed a Harvard-Yale football game since 1908 until last season, when...
Where's Jemmy? Brant began his spirited defense of Madison in 1938 while he was working as an editorial writer for the now defunct St. Louis Star-Times. The biography soon came to take so much of his time that Brant gave up his journalistic career. "If anyone had told me in 1938 that I would be working on Madison for 23 years, I would have been appalled," says Brant, now a spry, white-thatched 76. "I should never have started...
...says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well as thoroughbreds to offer when and if Britain gets into the Common Market...
Died. Lawrence Peter Fisher, 72, high-living, art-fancying member of the "Body by Fisher" dynasty who. as vice president of General Motors after Fisher's absorption by G.M.. fathered the now defunct La Salle and the nation's first 16-cylinder car. the 1930 Cadillac V16: of a circulatory failure: in Detroit...
Except for the fact that it boasts one saloon for every 34 residents. Virginia City, Nev., a town of 515 atop the exhausted Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely...