Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theater Royal (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Sir Ralph Richardson in Henry James's The Aspern Papers...
...Richardson, the richest of the new Athenians because of his ocean of oil reserves, jokingly takes credit for starting the boys from Athens on their way years ago. After making his first killing in oil, Richardson drove into town in a block-long Cadillac. "When I left," he says, "all those guys sitting on those benches around the square jumped up and followed me right out of town." Leader of the new Athenians, by general agreement, is Richardson's old crony, Clinton Williams Murchison, 59, a financial genius who, according to affectionate legend...
...sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while I run and catch another one.' First thing you know, you've got your hands full of Murchison horses...
...their haste to finish stories, reporters and rewritemen often reach for a cliche instead of a fresh phrase. To stop this practice, City Editor James H. Richardson of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 324,468) last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...William S. Richardson, 60, took over the presidency of the B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, the country's fourth largest rubber company. A brisk, incisive executive who never seems to slow down, Richardson emigrated from England to the U.S. when he was twelve. He joined the Goodrich organization in 1926, moved up to become general sales manager and then president of the B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. in Cleveland. As president, he succeeds John L. Collyer, a pioneer in synthetic rubber and spokesman for the industry on the War Production Board. Collyer will remain as chairman...