Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West" for their readiness "to shake the hand that slapped Christ in the face." But to restless Giovanni Gronchi, who believes in "an opening to the left," the Moscow trip seemed a prime chance to prove his mediating talents and to make Italy something more than just a junior partner in the Western alliance...
Despite the market slump, investors did not hesitate to plunge in where they thought they saw something good. After Paul V. Shields, senior partner in the Manhattan brokerage firm of Shields & Co., announced details of the deal to merge NAFI Corp. with Chris-Craft Corp. (TIME, Feb. 15), NAFI shot up 10⅜ points during the week to close at 29⅜, lead the exchange in trading. Polaroid rose more than 6 points during the week, and respectable gains were chalked up by Texas Instruments and Ampex...
...Wolfson's philosophical calm conceals a genuine, almost intellectual excitement about construction. The son of a Cincinnati pantsmaker, he majored in philosophy and political science at the University of Cincinnati, went to Florida after graduation in 1924 to cash in on the Florida land boom. He and a partner bought two lots for $7,000, pyramided their investment into a tidy fortune in a few years - then lost it all when the bubble burst. But that did not shatter Wolfson's love affair with building. He went to New York, got work as assistant timekeeper on a construction...
Palm Beach's fabulous white marble Flagler Museum came back to life when some 425 very social guests attended the pinnacle event of Florida's winter season. The museum was once Whitehall Mansion, home of Oilman Henry Morrison Flagler, a Rockefeller partner who, before his death in 1913, almost singlehanded, transformed much of southern Florida from wasteland into alluring real estate. Built in 1902 at a cost of $2,500,00. Whitehall's 39 rooms include a cavernous (110 ft. by 40 ft.) tapestried main hall that once contained one of the largest Persian Kirmanshah rugs ever...
...Club in Manhasset. Somebody had imported some English pram sailing dinghies. There was a big argument, after some bathtub gin, over the merits of dinghies, and we decided to have a regatta on New Year's Day. G. Colin Ratsey won the race. He's now a partner in the sailmaking firm of Ratsey