Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television on tape or film often suffers from loss of spontaneity, but it frequently makes up the loss with a quality of intimacy and awe. CBS last week ran off two such engaging programs...
...WORLD'S LARGEST STORE GREETS A NEW NEIGHBOR ran the full-page newspaper ad. Thus the daddy of department stores said hello last week to the daddy of discounters. With the opening of a new nine-story, marble-and-glass store directly across from Macy's, E. J. Korvette, Inc., has moved into Manhattan's bustling Herald Square-34th Street retailers' lair, which also houses such formidable outfits as Gimbel Bros., B. Altman and Ohrbach...
Ahmanson's sense of financial timing was honed early. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, he began dabbling in the stock market in his teens, ran up his $20,000 grubstake by age 18. He moved west after his father's death, started selling fire insurance, and soon hit upon the idea of concentrating on the low-risk residential side of that business, especially on foreclosed properties (which in those days required a new policy). Thus the Depression made him rich. "I felt like an undertaker," Ahmanson once remarked. 'The worse...
...Bruin," but he makes the mistake of comparing him to his older brother Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. "Oliver fascinated people when he talked," while Matthew "could only convince them." Matthew had the admirable but unexciting virtues of a seagoing Alger hero. Utterly efficient, he ran a taut but not too happy ship, stressing maximum standards of hygiene and minimum shore liberty. When corporal punishment was abolished, he predicted that the Navy would "go to the devil...
...Wylie. Clinton, who has just missed election twice before drew heavily on the central Cambridge votes that used to go to Committeeman George F. Olesen. And Wylie, one of nine candidates endorsed by the CCA, wooed support from the same constituency that elected Committeewoman Barbara Ackermann who this year ran for the Council...