Word: goodkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raiders. Beginning in 1948, the venerable, 118-year-old gunmaker was dealt a crippling blow by a group of raiders who bought up a large chunk of stock. The group, led by David A. Goodkind (a close associate of Louis Wolfson), won representation on the board. They forced the company to offer tenders to buy up stock at an average price of $52 a share, though the stock was selling for under $40 when the Goodkind group started to buy. Thus Colt's was forced to pay out $6,500,000 to buy out the Goodkind group and others...
...Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close, Mr. Ludington did a little dance and several singers made Chevaliertype faces. The mugging was almost as amusing as their French...