Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman "D": McCall (A) d. Peter Stone (H), 15-13, 13-15, 18-16, 15-18, 15-8 Latshaw (A) d. Julian Hartwell (H), 12-15, 12-15, 18-17, 16-15, 15-5; Smith (A) d. Jeff Eaton (H), 15-9, 15-9, 15-10; Terry Blanchard (H) d. Bacon (A), 15-14, 16-14, 7-15, 15-7; Wallace Stimpson (H) d. Calloway...
...Cash McCall, by Cameron Hawley. All about a devastatingly attractive financier who would not love his cash so much, loved he not honor more (TIME...
...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...
...Renaissance prince of a man. He flies his own remodeled B26, made his first million before he was 30, and can discuss equally knowledgeably the merits of Italian ham or the life of Buddha. However, when Grant Austen learns that he panicked too soon on Suffolk Moulding, and that McCall is about to unload the company at a $1,000,000 profit, he sees Cash only as a king-size heel. Before the gold dust settles. Cash gets a chance to prove his good faith, and does...
Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...