Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divides his spare time between water skiing and reading history. (He prefers to read about ancient civilizations "because, after all, I'm living in this one.") Orphaned at 14, Townsend put himself through the University of Michigan washing dishes, and worked for ten years with Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart, Chrysler's auditors. He got into the auto business formally four years ago, when he joined Chrysler as controller...
...measureless crudity," it gives a prose version of his poetic vision. As such, its effect was only to scare off a poetic grandee, and it showed a naively crude Marxist notion of culture as a "superstructure." The combination of "wealthy incentive, no limit to food, land, money, work, opportunity, smart and industrious citizens" would surely some day be followed by "great ideas-religion, poets, literature." Such was Whitman's wobbly esthetic, which he was to share with the leading citizens of Sauk Centre, Minn...
...Classes, the stylish girls' school that last week mourned the death of "Misshew" at 89. "She had a strictly personal approach," recalled one alumna, "as if she were a governess and we were her little children." Added Actress Julie Harris, a member of the Grosse Pointe, Mich, smart set. who lived with Miss Hewitt for more than a year after graduation while she tried to crack Broadway: "Something has gone out of my life...
...giant New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "Group practice is the most efficient type in the long run." New York University's Dr. Howard A. Rusk goes farther: "Solo practice is outdated, as outdated as fee-for-service. You have to have groups. No one doctor is smart enough to know enough about the entire skin and all that it covers...
Once, That's All. John and Clint Murchison had some early trouble establishing their value. John got stuck in an unprofitable timber investment in the Northwest, lost millions in mining uranium. Clint Jr. plunged into a residential deal in Dallas on which old Clint figured a smart operator could have made a million. Clint Jr. lost half a million. Said old Clint: "You can afford to go broke once, but that...