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...high-quality alloys. Son of a Georgia C.P.A., Hunter took over his father's accounting firm in 1928, later merged it with Haskins & Sells of Manhattan, auditors for Crucible. In his spare time ("I really haven't any"), Hunter likes to golf (around 100) and to "mosey around" his six-acre Sewickley, Pa. estate. He replaces William P. Snyder Jr., who will continue as a member of Crucible's executive committee and board of directors...
Captain Fisby (John Forsythe) is sent to the village of Tobiki with orders to teach the natives democracy and to build them a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. He brilliantly bungles his assignment: rather than march them glumly in formation toward their desired goal, he lets them mosey to it down their own primrose path. They wax prosperous selling sweet-potato brandy to the U.S. armed forces; they grow affectionate when allowed to build a teahouse instead of a school. There is not only joy in Tobiki, but, at the final curtain, notable satisfaction in Washington. A genial satire, the play blueprints...
...talked for 4½ hours. In mid-afternoon Shivers came out smiling, said he was going to mosey around and might look at Abe Lincoln's tomb while Stevenson thought the matter over. (He never did visit the tomb, instead called at the office of a Texas insurance...
...Bulldogs who prefer the more direct approach, boxing coach "Mosey" King-31 years at New Haven-again directs flits workouts...
...university presses usually mosey along about their useful, traditional business, publishing scholarly biographies, monographs on the pterodactyl or .the mud turtle, studies in the. syntax of Middle English or Middle High German prose. But some of them are broadening their lists, and now the young, enterprising Rutgers University .Press has gone streaking off on its own to corral a Lincoln volume for which almost any big-city commercial publisher would have mortgaged his corporate soul. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made it its February choice,* and 500,000 copies are in print...