Word: merediths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. James Edwin (Ted) Meredith, 65, fleet-footed oldtime track champion who won fame at the age of 20 by setting a world record for the 800-meter run at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, later set the 440-and 880-yd. records, also served as an income-tax-delinquent hunter; after long illness; in Camden...
...music of the first part and the situations that it animated glowed with an almost Latin fervor. Andrey and Natasha (well sung by Morley Meredith and Helena Scott) faced each other across a garden ashiver with moonlight and poured out their yearnings in great warm gusts of melody; Natasha pirouetted giddily at a ball and lacily sang her infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other...
...string of other firsts followed. In 1945, as housing boomed, Meredith turned National Life to the package mortgage, permitting cash-short house buyers to tack appliances onto the house purchase price. An estimated half the mortgages written are now package mortgages...
Modern Developments. Meredith pioneered again when National Life became the first life-insurance company to offer open-end mortgages (i.e., letting homeowners reopen their mortgages to add the cost of home improvements) on a nationwide basis. It attracted widespread interest; again, about half the new mortgages are open...
...Meredith's newest idea is mortgages on automobile house trailers. Though many bankers consider trailer owners poor risks, Meredith argues, "Most of them are pretty solid-a lot are retired people who want to travel a little, and a lot are skilled and highly paid workers who have to go from one job to another.'' In 27 months National Life has lent $15 million at 5% and 6%. Total loss to date: $75. Says Meredith: "You have to keep up with modern developments...