Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heyday of James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sullivan and Robert Benchley, aging (54) Poetical Punster Ogden Nash laid the blame for lost laughter to the cold war and a generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
...Edwards ally, State Senator Fletcher Morgan, started an investigation that, he hinted, might last for the next two years, until the legislature reconvenes. "That means a two-year period to further harass and sabotage the program," says Dr. Flipse. At week's end Governor
...National Steel's boss. Weir set out to finance its lively ambitions. "I wanted $40 million at a time when that money looked like the national debt. I got it, not from Wall Street, but from Main Street." Instead of turning, like other steelmen, to J.P. Morgan & Co., Weir sold bonds to the public. With new equipment, Weir operated on a stubbornly independent policy of "no order too little, none too big." He supplied Detroit automakers on a booming scale that yielded National Steel a profit during every Depression year, made it the only U.S. steel company...
...Elderly Man, Goya's Countess Altamira, and two matching portraits by 15th century painter Francesco del Cossa. Their first modest plunge, which today would strain most museum budgets, barely caused a ripple in an art world then dominated by such high, wide spenders as J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick and Benjamin Altman...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...