Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sounds. Freimann works 18 hours a day at company headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind., sleeps in a room ad joining his office. A demanding perfectionist, he visits the company's nine plants unannounced, dresses down plant management when things are not ship shape, sometimes takes a soldering iron and a screwdriver to go to work on a problem himself. The largest single Magnavox stockholder (167,000 of 2,350,000 shares), he relaxes aboard the 62-ft. company yacht, Magna Mar, fishes for marlin off Florida. A music lover, he has little confidence in engineering graphs and charts that...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical investigation of a spring phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical, exaggerated investigation of the springtime phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...
...Iroquois word for "thing of beauty." For a century and a half, while nursing the frontier's commerce and industry, the Ohio continued to be a 981-mile-long showcase of nature's charms. Rising at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle"), the Ohio wound through coal-rich mountains to reach the seven hills of Cincinnati, cultural center of the new West. Alive with bass and blue gill, it foamed bright white at Louisville's limestone falls, poured clean blue into the Mississippi...
Goodbye Shanghai. Born in Fort Bragg, Calif., Starr left the University of California before graduation, was admitted to the bar after reading law with a San Francisco attorney. He ran an insurance agency for two years, sold it for $10,000 when he enlisted in the Army during World War I. At war's end he went to Shanghai, took over the tiny insurance department of a Shanghai bank, converted it into an independent firm -American Asiatic Underwriters - and be came agent for a dozen U.S. insurance companies, including Fireman's Fund, Continental and Great American. He violated...