Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perennial rumors that local college hockey would be bounced from the Boston Arena became fact last week when Walter A. Brown, Garden-Arena entrepreneur, announced at the final Hockey Writers Luncheon that the ice would be taken out of the St. Botolpn Street Ice Palace and replaced by a permanent basketball floor. As a result, the Boston Garden will have to bear the entire load of professional, college, and schoolboy hockey in the Metropolitan area beginning next season. Although their big games (B.C.-B.U., and Harvard vs. other Pentagonal League teams) will still take place in the North Station refrigerator...
UNSQUELCHABLE effrontery has always been Groucho's chief stock in trade. During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals: fraudulent attorney, flimflamming explorer, dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about...
Mills also attacks the non-educational work of professors. "The merging type of professional-and-businessman seeks to be and often is an entrepreneur who can exploit special privileges. Among these is the use of both business and professional bureaucracies. The professor sells the prestige of his university to secure market-research jobs in order to build a research unit; he is privileged over commercial agencies because of his connection with the university...
Shortly after his wife filed for separate maintenance on the ground that he drinks too much, Actor Sonny Tufts gave a concrete demonstration of the sort of thing she had in mind. For noisily arguing with the entrepreneur of an all-night eatery over a $4.55 bill for fried chicken, cops arrested Tufts and a Hawaiian actress, booked them for drunkenness...
...witnessed the introduction of a Schumpeterian innovation--television--and its vested interests have banded together against the innovator to the protect their invesment. Now several of the industry's moguls, led by entrepreneur extraordinary Harold E. Stassen, have decided that an oligopoly sustained by unlimited television broadcasting might be better than the present unprofitable and uneconomical free competition. It would certainly bring a better product to all the people at a lower price; it would avoid needless duplication of resources, and would stabilize the industry immeasurably...