Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refugee from the British Foreign Office. Though Pat's grey-flecked brown beard predates Commander "Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their beards: "The beard flourishes whenever there is a Queen on the throne of England. We've decided that when you're bearded that's the only eccentricity you're allowed-no flowered waistcoats, nothing else. And you have to be much cleaner...
...MUTUAL FUND SHARES will be sold by agents of a major life-insurance company for the first time. In Eastern, Midwestern and Southern U.S., salesmen of Ohio's Nationwide insurance companies will offer, in addition to their fixed-income policies, stock in Nation-wide's Mutual Income Foundation, an open-end investment trust, whose payments fluctuate along with cost of living...
Topic A. Caen's Baghdad is essentially a mutual admiration society whose members never tire of hearing San Francisco's praises sung. "You go ten days without writing a column about how great the city is," says Caen, "and you start getting letters saying 'you don't love us any more.' " His most popular columns in the Examiner (circ. 246,186) are the periodic panegyrics he calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats...
...architecture competition, 14 New England structures were chosen from a field of sixty. The judges hit the nail on the head by making the Award to Anderson, Beckwith & Haible (Boston) for the magnificent Office Building for Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company in Waltham, Mass.; and by singing out for commendation the Brandeis University Interfaith Center in Waltham, and the Tokeneke Elementary School in Darien, Conn...
...their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover, ex-radical newspaper editor and ex-Wobbly. The newest totalitarianism, Abe decides, is Total Security. As the whale of social conformity begins to swallow him, Abe utters little burps...