Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since she first launched When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain as her beam song in 1931, TV-Radioriole Kate Smith has turned the lunar trick some 10,000 times. This week Kate will at last put her Moon in limbo. On her new MBS radio show she will open by warbling Swonderful, fade away with By Myself. Said she of Moon: "I've simply grown tired of hearing the song...
...offices from Rome to San Francisco, the world's biggest brokerage house will change its name-which is really a household word-on March 1 from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. The switch was caused by the resignation of General Partner Alpheus Crosby (Alphie) Beane, 47, but it is really a long-needed tribute to the firm's chief executive, Directing Partner Winthrop Hiram Smith...
...Smith has been Merrill Lynch's operating boss for more than a decade, directing a huge supermarket of finance that now handles 12% of the New York Stock Exchange's public round-lot volume and 20% of its odd-lot trading, and has serviced 450,000 investor-clients in the past three months alone. A shrewd New Englander from South Hadley Falls, Mass., he attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., went from Amherst ('16) to a $7-a-week runner's job in the fledgling Merrill Lynch Co. with a burning conviction that the brokerage business...
...Tractor. He soon caught the fancy of Co-Founder Charles E. Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...
From then on it is easy. The wily Howe and the sturdy cripple combine to fashion a comeback, and the younger man continues to grow until the climax of his nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924. Bellamy now shows a Roosevelt who retains the sharpness that had given him profound early successes, but has learned to temper it with patience...