Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper: Barbara expects a child around September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel I'm divorced from him until my California decree becomes final next...
...Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern architecture, since no one would credit them with an Early American ancestry anyway. And, searching for meanings, he wildly overinterprets. Example: American women do not like to ride motorcycles because, perched on the back seat, they would have to assume a position secondary to the male. (The real explanation just might be that a pillion ride on a motorbike is hard on coiffure, makeup and rump...
Slicks & Gusts. But the 500 is no joy ride. One slip, one tiny miscalculation, a sudden gust of wind, an oil slick on the track-any of these, at high speed, can bring death; the track's pavement and rails are covered with skid marks and paint scratches left by skidding, hurtling cars. In 50 years of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 50 people have died...
...Ride It Out." Every investment decision and matter of importance is left to Robinson and the other four trustees, with help from the six-man advisory board. In the tradition that the trustee shares in the rewards he brings to others, they are among the best-paid men in U.S. industry. Vice Chairman Kenneth Isaacs, Robinson's righthand man and the president of the Growth Stock Fund, made $360,989 last year. The junior trustee made more than...
...disperses them widely. M.I.T. never puts more than 5% of its assets into one company, or more than 25% into one industry. Since it buys for the long pull, it is not bothered by short-term fluctuations. "When the market turns down," says Dwight Robinson, "we just try to ride...