Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the success story of the onetime yakherder who, with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, walked to greater heights than any man before. Tenzing had won the chance to climb Everest by being the gamest and surest of the bellows-chested Sherpa tribesmen who lugged packs for sahibs scrambling up Himalayan peaks. But people were not sure of his nationality, or even how to spell his name. Today, this Nepal-born mountaineer is a sort of Asian Lindbergh, hailed by millions in the East as a heroic symbol of their true capabilities, and worshiped by many as the Lord Buddha...
...deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson, he retire at his peak. Avery again refused...
Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...
...duPont bequests will establish the College's second largest scholarship fund, exceeded only by the Edmund Ira Richards Fund which was endowed in 1935 with a capital of more than one million dollars...
Once, Avery launched into a disjointed discourse that rambled on for 27 minutes. A stockholder wanted to know why President Edmund Krider was being retained in view of Ward's steady profit drop. Avery turned away in bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...