Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald, a prerace favorite, was less fortunate, being forced to drop out when a flying cinder lodged in his eye. Cathcart, who took second and will go to England, is not considered in the same class as Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's misfortune could have been avoided by a more judicious selection of starters; no more than three of the seven men entered had earned the right to compete...
Armed with a finely tempered wit, a keenly observant eye, and a talent for expressing both, cartoonist Jules Feiffer breezed into Cambridge for a one-day stop last week in his whirlwind tour of college bookstores throughout New England...
Summers, Percy clerked at Bell & Howell for $16 to $20 a week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became...
Evans cast his collector's eye on Crane in the fall of 1957, when the company's sales were slipping from a record $394 million in 1956 to $378 million. He began buying up stock, asked to get on the Crane board, but was turned down. As Crane sales dropped to $336 million in 1958, Evans decided that the time was ripe to move, called in Proxy-Battler Alfons Landa, boss of Penn-Texas Corp., to help...
Delight in Destruction. To Author Gray, war is at once an ecstasy and an agony, and he examines both with a philosopher's brooding eye. War, he believes, has enduring appeals: "Some scenes of battle, much like storms over the ocean or sunsets on the desert or the night sky seen through a telescope, are able to overawe the single individual and hold him in a spell." There is also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed...