Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raider Louis Wolfson, who temporarily retired from the public eye after his unsuccessful attempt to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward (TIME, Oct. 8), was on the prowl again last week. He was casting a covetous eye on ailing American Motors Corp. ($2,994,613 loss in first quarter of fiscal 1957). Wolfson announced that he and his family have increased their holdings in the company by 110,000 shares to 350,000, giving him the largest single block, though only 6%, of the 5,670,430 shares outstanding...
Crum declared "The only ones that can gain by the struggle between the Arabs and the Jews are the great powers--Russia and possibly America...
...January a desire to use the document for its report, and has waited to discuss it until they could "give it the best play possible," Miss Terry Ferrer, the magazine's religion editor, said yesterday. Miss Ferrer also spoke with several members of the Divinity School last week to gain further information for her article...
...Theatre Workshop has existed for the past two years mostly to give new actors and directors a chance to gain some stage experience. With the production of Juan Alono's The Death of Don Juan, which was published in the winter issue of the Advocate, the Workshop resumes its second function--producing new plays. The play proves quite good enough to deserve the author's further attention, but it still needs some...
...exhibitor in all three shows who ranks high with the elder Abstract Expressionists as one of the few painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues. No idea makes a picture good...