Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merrill's Marauders" made American infantry history in the semi-guerrilla tradition begun by Rogers' Rangers and Morgan's Raiders: small groups of troops with heavy firepower, designed for mobile, long-range harassment behind enemy lines. The Marauders' job: surprise encirclement and roadblocks behind the Japanese front as Stilwell's mainly Chinese forces drove slowly toward Myitkyina...
Real & Immediate. A group of scholars representing the Yale, Harvard, Princeton, New York Public and Morgan libraries felt so strongly about the matter that they formed a Manuscripts Emergency Committee. "The threat to the integrity of existing collections," said the committee, "is real and immediate. We believe that the position taken by the Government is untenable." Other bookmen began to ask all sorts of dire questions. Would the New York Public Library, for instance, have to give up Washington's Farewell Address? And what about the Adams papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society-and the Hoover papers at Stanford...
...other half of the semi-finals will be held Wednesday when Morgan Law will meet Hardee-Sachs for the right to face Scott in the spring finals. An associate justice of the Supreme Court, not yet selected, will judge the final round...
Married. Yvonne de Carlo, 33, sultry cinemadventuress (Salome, Where She Danced, The Captain's Paradise); and Robert Drew Morgan, 40, Hollywood stunt man; she for the first, he for the second time; in Reno...
...with the bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, cost $350,000; judged as real estate, it is worth $1,252 per sq. in. (v. $2.10 per sq. in. for the House of Morgan's Wall Street terrain). A Cezanne that could be bought for about $100 when it was first shown in 1895 today fetches around $113,000. Notes FORTUNE: "General Motors has done a little better than Cezanne, but not so well as Renoir; $100 invested in G.M. stock in 1909 would be worth...