Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pills do more harm than good in sports where skill or judgment is paramount, e.g., a football quarterback does not usually need to be keyed up but calmed down. Said Ed Froelich, trainer for the Chicago White Sox: "What sense does it make to hop somebody up today, and tomorrow he's deader than a mackerel and loses you a ball game?" As for the A.M.A.'s observation that the use of pep pills can be detected by urinalysis, one athletic director commented: "I'd hate to have athletics get to the point where...
...Ahead lay still more prickly years, not mentioned in Early Havoc, when June bounced from other marathons to modeling, from soap operas to summer stock, before she broke into lights. June's final judgment of her Early Havoc: "I had learned a lot. I would be careful of everybody and everything . . . You can take the girl out of vaudeville, but you can't take the vaudeville out of the girl...
...such calm and confidence that he sleeps as soundly as he invests. As the boss of the world's biggest fund, he is the first to admit that there are no exact rules for investment. Says he: "Investment is not a science. It is a matter of human judgment...
M.I.T.'s good judgment laid the base for the public's extraordinary confidence in the entire industry. When M.I.T. was founded in 1924, it startled the financial world with a brand new idea. Until then, the investment field had been dominated by "closed-end" investment companies; they sold a specific number of their own shares that were traded in the open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted...
Robinson walked into M.I.T.'s offices and suggested that Griswold and the trustees needed a research staff to back up their own investment judgment. He had the right background. True, he had been born in Seattle, but only by a quirk of fate (his engineer father had taken his family there while working on a construction job). He was indisputably a Boston product. He had gone to Noble & Greenough and Harvard (1920), taken a dutiful fling at engineering, gone back to Harvard Business School to study finance, put in his time in a Boston investment banking house. The trustees...