Word: outgrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sponsored courses for small-business executives. With better executive training, more generous rewards for talented men, and continued emphasis on the individual pride of accomplishment that has traditionally attracted U.S. businessmen to independent companies, most small-business leaders today are confident that they can outperform, even outgrow the biggest companies in the U.S. As one vice president said at a small-business seminar in Manhattan last week: "My company's bigger now than G.M. was 40 years...
...class and party lines. Fifty leading bankers, industrialists, economists and union leaders promptly joined in publishing a statement which declared that "the European common market could enable Europe to establish healthy economic relations with the rest of the world. If we neglect to minister to its birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express, chorused fervent approval...
...phone service in Tennessee and later in Georgia. Recalled to the Army in 1950, went off promising that he would run for governor in 1952. He did, became the youngest governor in the U.S. by defeating Gordon W. Browning by 57,000 votes. (His favorite campaign pitch: "I can outgrow my youth, but my opponents can't outgrow their faults.") Re-elected for a four-year term in 1954 (defeating Browning again in 94 of 95 counties), despite campaign charges-never disproved-that his father was involved in shadowy influence-peddling and kickbacks. Works hard to impress Tennesseans with...
...Mother Goose, 1926, combines a maximum of bad taste with a minimum of talent. Frederick DeWolf Pingree '24 wrote the doggerel, and Robert Martin '23 drew the cartoons, some of which are amusing in conception, but suffer rather drastically in execution. At a time when Harvard was beginning to outgrow its reputation as a hotbed of social snobbery, Pingree and Martin reacted absurdly against the changing times with verses showing a jejeune anti-semitism, and a rather pitiable outcry against the expanding attitude of the Admissions Department. The following poem, called "The Club-Man-About-Ttown" or "Suaviter In Modo...
Sylvester also delights in taking cracks at TV, Madison Avenue admen (one of them worried so much that his hair turned charcoal grey), and the big names of show business whose egos outgrow their talents (favorite targets: Arthur Godfrey, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra). "Wouldn't it be wonderful," observed Sylvester one bright morning, "if Arthur Godfrey hired Mario Lanza and Lanza quit before Arthur could fire...