Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempered farmer who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism...
...that Joe had resigned. Reporters found him in his hotel room, naked except for a towel around his middle, drinking a bottle of beer. McCarthy, who had spent a year and a half in exile after leaving the Yankees, said: "I didn't come back into baseball to quit after two months...
Snap Judgments. The head and principal builder is dapper, soft-spoken Charles Allen Jr. (45), who has learned the tricks of his trade during 30 years in Wall Street. Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
Almost two years ago, big, amiable Robert Harlan Van Gelder quit his job as editor of the New York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...