Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winchell, who may have heard Wall Street gossip that the Securities & Exchange Commission was looking into the tips on N.P. & L., carefully denied that he had intended to tip anyone. In fact, he said, he had gotten his dope out of a broker's letter reporting that Walter Mack, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola, "was trying to buy control of N.P. & L. to be used as distributor for a new soft drink firm...
Next day Walter Mack made everything clear. He announced that Phoenix Industries Corp., a Manhattan capital venture company of which he is now president and a substantial stockholder, had bought 90% control of Nedick's, Inc., which has a chain of 96 hot dog and orange drink stands, a gross of $10 million a year. Cost: $3,700,000. Mack also wanted to buy the controlling interest in National Power & Light, held by Electric Bond & Share, for roughly $1,000,000. He wanted to turn Nedick's management over to N.P. & L. and change the name to National...
Died. Edward Trowbridge ("Eddie") Collins, 63, star of the Philadelphia Athletics' "hundred-thousand-dollar infield" (1906-14), described by Connie Mack as "the greatest second baseman who ever lived"; of heart disease; in Boston. Among his records: a lifetime batting average of .333; the longest stint as a player (25 years; 3,313 hits in 2,826 games); highest number of stolen bases in a game (6); greatest number of years leading the American League in fielding...
...West Palm Beach driving range photographers paused to take some action pictures of lean, wiry old Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack. At 88, still limber as a pitcher's glove and lean-flanked as a rookie outfielder, "Mr. Mack" had decided to improve his golf game. With a little coaching, he was already smashing out 175-yard drives, had plenty of time, having closed out a half century as manager of his Philadelphia Athletics (Connie Mack, president) to learn the finer points of the short pitch and the downhill putt...
When asked how he put Mack Trucks back on its feet, Bransome calls in his five top men, points to them and says: "There's your answer." He adds: "We're not supermen doing a superman's job, you know. We just apply common sense...