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"Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Rodeo | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Like many office secretaries in England, 37-year-old Norah Maloney sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Telltale Bite | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

To Prudential's President Carrol Mcteer Shanks, 52, this seemed like a fair price to pay for a new office in the Midwest, where Prudential hopes to tap the area's one-third of all U.S. farm incomes, the $30 to $50 million auto industry, the meat-packing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Divide & Multiply | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Divide & Multiply | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

President Shanks plunged right into a program of decentralization, believing that local managers can get more business -and can handle the company's loans, collections, etc. better-if they are freed from top management's apron strings.' He opened a $9,000,000 office for Prudential in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Divide & Multiply | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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