Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's freshman team, which also beat Harvard twice. Most spectacular of the crop is Tim Sheehy, who is centering on the first line for sophomore Kevin Ahearn and senior Gordie Clarke. Sheehy, an All-Everything from International Falls, Minn., who broke all the freshman scoring records, is the nephew of Bronco Nagurski. He hopes to play with the pros when he is finished...
With Allis-Chalmers' $850 million in annual sales, the deal, if it goes through, stands to raise Signal's sales to $2.3 billion a year. Before Shumway, now 40, a pipe-smoking ex-Marine (and nephew of Founder-Chairman Samuel B. Mosher), became president in 1964, sales were $444 million. Vowing to look into "anything that's well managed and in a growth industry," Shumway is well on his way toward making his company-whatever its eventual name-one of the nation's hugest corporations...
...rest of director Mary Belle Feltenstein's cast is not up to their standard. Bob Barnard is weak as Mortimer, the sisters' drama-critic nephew. The part is very difficult. Mortimer has to be the sane man in a houseful of lunatics and cadavers, registering a new variety of horror or shock every time a grisly surprise is sprung on him. But Barnard simply hasn't the range of expression he needs to make the most...
...ghoulish mix-up was unraveled by Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
Founder Blazer kept his company flexible, bragged that an Ashland refinery could be converted from one kind of refining to another "by supper-time." He also kept his work force lean, refused to hire his own nephew after Rex Blazer graduated from the University of Illinois ('28). "If you are as good as you think you are," said Uncle Paul, "you won't get any credit for it because you are my nephew. If you aren't that good, I'll have to fire you, and the family already has enough trouble." Paul Blazer loaned...