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Word: flashguns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office in a warehouse-like building on the site of the Boston Tea Party. Henderson is spokesman and operating chief, but when financial transactions are involved, both men join in the negotiations. At Beacon Hill social gatherings, Henderson seems anything but a shrewd businessman as he lopes about snapping flashgun pictures of his fellow guests or sits down at the piano to torture the company with his own composition. Come with Me (sample line: "Even silly atoms know they should detonate"). Actually, he is a financial wizard who, along with the Zeckendorfs and the Urises, was one of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Running to Cover | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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