Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's genial J. (for Joseph) Patrick Lannan has parlayed a genteel raiding technique into a corporate empire with interests ranging from nickel vending machines to high-priced dredging operations. Last week Pat Lannan and Arthur Wirtz, ice-show and boxing promoter and real-estate owner, informed directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad that they had control of the 10,640-mile road, fourth largest...
...effective control. Directors promised Lannan and Wirtz, who own almost 30,000 shares apiece v. 8,500 shares held by all other directors combined, seats on the board. Said Lannan's good friend and Milwaukee Board Chairman Leo Crowley: "We're happy to have a fellow like Pat on the board...
None of the Milwaukee's management seemed worried by the possibility that Lannan's group might take over. One of the busiest buyers and sellers of companies in the U.S., Pat Lannan, 51, specializes in buying into slow-rolling but potentially good companies and stepping up their lagging profits...
...supplied almost all the required atmosphere, from the rowdy, Italianate folk-type songs to the entr'acte hit, Standing on the Corner, to the show's one deeply felt song, Warm All Over. Even so, there was a moment when he feared it was beginning to sound pat as a TV program, so he halted for a playback, to get everything in playing order again. The Lady recording, on the other hand, contains all the songs but little of the dramatic action with which to recreate Bernard Shaw's famed Pygmalion (on which the show is based...
Said NBC Chairman of the Board Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver: "Some people ask us, 'Why don't you try to beat Sullivan with drama, something other than comedy?' We've really looked into it, statistically and every other way, and everything we've learned shows that on Sundays from 8 to 9 we get largely family audiences, and that in that hour 99.5% of American homes will tune in on comedy. So we are going to give them what we think they want-a souped-up, slicked-down version of Tonight...