Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the vengeful attitude of John Fox, former publisher of the defunct Boston Post (TIME, July 7)-and all because Goldfine had demanded payment from Fox of a legal debt. Said Goldnne: "It's not pleasant to have to talk about Mr. Fox because he seems like a sick man to me. He's crazy like...
...other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...
...House passed (348-2) and sent to the Senate a bill to give sick railroaders another couple of pep pills by 1) providing Federal Government guarantees for private loans to rail companies for maintenance and improvement, and 2) letting the ICC, rather than state boards, pass on discontinuance of money-losing services, such as commuter trains that run nearly empty...
...proxy fighters is a tough-talking, dapper Washington lawyer named Alfons Landa, who admits that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein, 54, from the sick Penn-Texas Corp., taking over as president at $36,000 a year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially as a counterirritant to Silberstein...
...goes up when I clean the bastards out." But he has found it profitable to fight most of his proxy battles on the side of management. Rarely before has he tried to take over in a corporate fight. Usually he makes his money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says. "I'll take mine slower." Landa has never been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited...