Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced, will move to Miami not only his wife and six children, but also his former Frontier vice presidents for operations, sales and finance. The new team hopes to increase National's profits by refinancing, and standardizing its hodgepodge of aircraft. Known in the airline industry as a loner, Maytag seems unlikely to reopen the merger negotiations with Continental Airlines, which National broke off in March. Says he: "I think National can stand on its own two feet." As for George Baker, he will remain a director of National, but cheerily confides: "My future plans are to work...
...eight years of generally politicking around Massachusetts Peabody has remained independent working seriously for only one candidate, John F. Kennedy '40, met at Harvard. The President a loner in Massachusetts very lack of success has him on the corruption issue. In campaigns he has won only once--a term on the Governor's Council...
Around the league, Maris is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines, rarely displays emotion on or off the field. After a ball game, still in uniform, Maris sits quietly on a stool in front of his locker for an hour or more, slowly consuming cans of beer and smoking cigarettes. "I just have to get the game out of my system," he says. Maris never answers fan mail personally ("I got enough work to do without writing letters"), makes few charity appearances. "The club shouldn't expect you to go to hospitals. They...
Basic to the Dean's proposal is the fact that the American law teacher has been a "loner." He is burdened with heavy teaching assignments since there are insufficient funds for the employment of junior teachers. Legal scholarship has thus focused around personal teaching. This is not always desirable says Griswold, for it "leaves little room at a for juniors whose talents in the field of legal scholarship, commentary, and leadership lie in other areas than teaching...
...that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although he had the admiration of both Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who called Nolde...