Word: impishness
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...light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...
...houses, a personal fortune of some $40,000,000. He has a reputation for extravagance and big-time caprice which caused no less an analyzer of men of affairs than H. G. Wells to observe: "Lord Beaverbrook has as much brains and imagination as anyone else, but he is impish...
Dinner at 8145 is usually attended by three or four uninvited guests (if too many come, they have to split portions). If the talk becomes listless, the impish Beaver does not conceal his distress. Raising his thin arms over his head he exclaims: "Oh God, I'm bored!" His Canadian birth has not prevented Lord Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went...
Recently Beaverbrook polled the Express staff on the question: ''Do you approve of Express policies?" The answer came back almost unanimously NO. The impish Beaver was delighted with his hirelings' impishness...
...keeping with his prime tenet-that the General Staff should not find him a pliant Secretary-Louis Johnson takes an impish delight in upsetting army dogma and army officers. Though it is distinctly outside his province as Assistant Secretary, he once decided that too many enlisted men were serving as dog-robbers (officers' servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels...