Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well Booked. Nixon's trip to Alaska topped a tough and exhausting U.S. campaign effort. For five weeks Nixon had been on the road, working and speaking for Republican candidates. Last week his tour took him to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he spoke to 18,000, thence to Wichita, Kans., Billings, Mont. and Everett, Wash. Between speeches he found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports...
After another week's work in Manhattan she will head for the Embers (no kin) in Fort Wayne, Ind., then the Embers (no kin) in St. Louis, to assault a few more trembling pianos. Says she: "I'm better technically today than I ever was. I'm wild, but I'm polished...
...film firm, and Coleman (Harvard, '48) was attending the University of Pennsylvania law school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
...Fort Pitt had once been Pennsylvania's top brewer, but a strike had laid it low. Its big asset to Coleman and Siegel was a $1,800,000 loss that could be offset against profits if merged with a profitable company. With $1,500,000 in bank loans, they merged two profitable overcoat companies (owned by Siegel's family) with Fort Pitt, and wound up with control of Fort Pitt...
...Coleman negotiated a swap with the See-burgs of $1,200,000 in cash for the $2,000,000 owed in notes, borrowed another $700,000 from them. Siegel raised more from Philadelphia's Donner Foundation and the New York Water Corp. In addition, they sold off their Fort Pitt clothing and beer business for $3,000,000 plus a hefty beer royalty from the new brewery owners. With Seeburg's cash position in shape, they were able to pay off their bank debts for the original Fort Pitt deal -and buy Eastern Electric Inc.'s electrical...