Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned to type," recalls Paul McElroy, now an engineer in Cambridge, Mass. "Father would bring home lists of teachers and set us down to the typewriter to copy them. Then he sold the list of names to advertisers [for promotion lists]. He was full of ideas." Result: Neil McElroy had saved $1,000 by the time he got out of Withrow High School, and he followed his brothers to Harvard (all three won scholarships from the Harvard Club of Cincinnati...
Wine-Soaked Roof. Although used for endless entertaining, Palladio's villas were meant for what that luxurious age considered casual living. Wide windows and huge doors opened on fine river views and prospects, tempting water gardens and statuary-decked lawns. Linking the central, porticoed mass to grounds were long colonnades on either side-a device which, whether repeated in Ireland, England or Virginia, appears to set the building harmoniously in the landscape...
...huge supermarket of finance that now handles 12% of the New York Stock Exchange's public round-lot volume and 20% of its odd-lot trading, and has serviced 450,000 investor-clients in the past three months alone. A shrewd New Englander from South Hadley Falls, Mass., he attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., went from Amherst ('16) to a $7-a-week runner's job in the fledgling Merrill Lynch Co. with a burning conviction that the brokerage business had a tremendous future...
...Paso Natural Gas Co. to put into effect a $16.5 million rate increase, provided that it posts a bond for that amount in case the increase is later invalidated. Not to have allowed El Paso to go ahead, said FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuykendall, would have brought on a "mass of litigation clearly not in the public interest...
Born. To Richard Herrick, 26, first human to receive a successfully transplanted kidney (from his identical twin Ronald-TIME, Jan. 3, 1955), and Clara Burta Herrick, 27, a nurse who attended him at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital: a daughter, their first child; in Worcester, Mass. Name: Marjorie Helen. Weight...