Word: gilberts
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Compared with that, Charles Ponzi, Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert and Billie Sol Estes were pikers. Only Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king who in the 1920s defrauded investors of $500 million, ever topped Tino. More than that, De Angelis presents the classic example of how a man can exploit a complicated situation and use the credulity of high financiers for tremendous gain...
...full of intelligent attempts at essay writing and imaginative touches (like the marvelous montage, "The Harvard Architectural Museum"). But the final impression is of a rushed job: the sections on Presidents Pusey and Gilbert are just tired speeches, obviously stuffed in at the last moment to full a copy gap; typographical errors abound (Stanley Hoffmann and Myron Gilmore must have been amused at the spelling of their names); and much of the writing is loose and imprecise, like a first draft...
...Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other who assigned his grandfather to help-and 50 years before the correspondent was born...
Conspicuous among the 1,400 shareholders at the company's second annual meeting in Washington's Shoreham Hotel were two familiar chairman baiters: Mrs. Wilma Soss and Lewis D. Gilbert. As soon as Chairman Leo D. Welch called for order, Mrs. Soss was on her feet demanding to know if a proper notice of the meeting had been mailed. Welch ruled the question out of order, and a shouting match began. Finally, Welch did what many a corporate chairman has long felt like doing: he ordered Gilbert and Mrs. Soss to leave the meeting. Gilbert left with...
After half an hour, Gilbert and Mrs. Soss were readmitted, not the least contrite. Characteristically, Mrs. Soss demanded to know how much it had cost the company to have her thrown out. The company, Welch explained, was paying $2.25 an hour for each of the ten Pinkertons. Added Welch blandly: "It's a good arrangement...