Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
...Concept of 'Feyned Love' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Larry A. Sieden-top 2G won first prize in Social Sciences with his "Jean Bodin, Sovereignty, and the State: An Essay in Iconoclasm." "The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan: The Impact of Science on Politics," by Harold Fruchtbaum 1G, took first place in the Natural Sciences division...
...Since 1956, the Metropolitan News Co. of New York, one of 37 concerns that distribute New York papers, has paid out sums totaling $107,768 for "miscellaneous travel expenses." Asked by Chairman McClellan if these mysterious disbursements were payoffs to "some union officials," Metropolitan's Secretary Harold Weinstock took the Fifth Amendment...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
...advocates of splitting say that all U.S. corporations should split their stock so that it sells at $10 to $15, where it can compete with mutual funds. Many funds price their shares in this range (e.g., Lazard Fund, One William Street), keep splitting so that prices remain low. Says Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes & Co.: "A. T. & T., at 20 or 10 or 5, is a blue chip regardless of its selling price...