Word: macdonalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the past 20 years, John D. MacDonald, now 50, has written 600 short stories and 53 books (A Flash of Green, The Girl, the Goldwatch and Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...
Avoid the Unforgivable. This time, as he has done so often, MacDonald takes off from an actual, contemporary crime. The Last One Left goes back to the 1961 wreck of a 60-ft. ketch that burned and sank off the Bahamas, apparently with only one survivor, Skipper Julian Harvey. Three days later, a freighter picked up another survivor, an eleven-year-old girl, Terry Jo Duperrault. Harvey promptly killed himself-even before the child reported how the debt-burdened skipper had murdered her family and his own wife in a plot to collect $20,000 in insurance...
...years ago, Chairman Eppert, who started at Burroughs as a shipping clerk 45 years ago, began looking for a successor, found him in Ray W. Macdonald, head of the company's international sales. Under Macdonald, the company's overseas operations grew to equal its domestic organization. Macdonald, now 54, was appointed president last January, will succeed Eppert as chief executive officer Feb. 1. His expectation: annual sales of $1 billion by the early 1970s...
...Fight. Understandably alarmed, the industry has begun to strike back. S & H President William S. Beinecke said that it was "irresponsible" to suggest that the elimination of stamps "would result in a reduction of prices" and laid the blame on "strong inflationary pressures" in the economy. Elton F. MacDonald's Plaid Stamp company of Dayton said that "the cost of trading stamps has not gone up one iota." Clarence G. Adamy, President of the National Association of Food Chains, protests that "when we moved into stamps, we didn't increase our prices. We just promoted like hell...
Harvard was skippered by Tony Parker. The other crew members were Dan Burns, Kinnaird Howland, John Cunningham, Jim Notman, Doug MacDonald, Peter Robbins, and John Bullard...