Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What started him singing again was Los Angeles' Roger Wagner Chorale, the West Coast equivalent of Manhattan's Robert Shaw Chorale. For fun, Oliver began singing with the group. One day Dr. Hugo Strelitzer, a well-known voice coach, heard him and made it his business to train that powerful voice...
...program, arranged by Howard University's Professor John B. Johnson Jr., was given by an eminent interracial group of specialists. In the mornings they talked in highly technical terms to fellow specialists; afternoons they tackled the general practitioner's problems. "After all," said Dr. Johnson, "there's no use having ophthalmologists if the G.P. doesn't recognize glaucoma in time to send the patient to the specialist before he goes blind...
...prayers began to rise last week around the 200-ft. steel cross in Konigsplatz, only about 1,000 East Germans were on hand. As a group they were beginning to look like a different kind of German. It was a difference that could be seen in little things-the nervous eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening...
...sector of the market showed the need for adjustment more than the electronics stocks. They have risen more than four times as much as the market as a whole since January 1958 (see chart), have outpaced every other stock group. The average ratio of price to earnings among electronics stocks is more than 25 to 1, and some have been selling at up to 100 times earnings. Fairchild Camera soared from 91½ in April to 205 within three months, before dropping back to 142¾, where it is still at 50 times earnings; Texas Instruments has risen from...
Rockefeller got blooded in venture capital by helping round up $3,500,000 to refinance young Eastern Air Lines in 1938. He saved the day for one of his boyhood heroes, President Eddie Rickenbacker, who almost lost control to a bump-Rickenbacker group. Rockefeller took 24,400 shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller...