Word: getters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steve Krause, the Crimson's top point-getter last winter, lapped both of Springfield's men twice on his way to an easy triumph in the 1000-free, and sophomore Andy Huff was second...
...roughhewn go-getter of 49, Hickel was the 1938 Golden Gloves welter weight champion of Kansas and never went to college. During his 29 years in Alaska, where he arrived with 370, Hickel amassed a fortune of more than $14 million in hotels, land and natural-gas holdings. After he became Governor in 1967, his friendliness to oil companies gave him a reputation for putting industrial development before everything else - a reputation that was enhanced when he freely scorned "conservation for conservation's sake." At the Senate hearings preceding his confirmation, Hickel even seemed deaf to the fact that...
They are neither. As a result, the book is engorged with minutiae that might better have been left in the filing cabinet. Much of it is Dun & Bradstreet; the Bouviers' commonest denominator seems to have been a preoccupation with getting and spending. Getter No. 1 was Michel, a cabinetmaker from the Rhone Valley, who fled France after Waterloo to settle in Philadelphia and accumulate a tidy fortune in real estate. Getter No. 2 was one of his sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization...
Died. Earl Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...
...Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked hard for what he has and is fearful of losing...