Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss. Last week Bill Zeckendorf announced one of the most complicated deals in his spectacular career. "It may sound quixotic at first," said he, "but it makes sense." The deal is with American Superpower Corp., a small investment trust specializing in utility stocks. Under it-subject to approval by Superpower's stockholders and the SEC-Zeckendorf will swap all his Webb & Knapp stock for 60% voting control in Superpower. He will get nearly 12,000,000 shares of common (some of it still to be issued) with a par value of 10?, plus a million shares of new junior...
...grade school. At eight, he was giving his friends formal lectures on the anatomy of the jellyfish. At nine, he was reading Carpenter's book on microscopy. In his teens, he was sneaking physics books into his Latin classes. In school, however, he was considered a spectacular dullard. And at Harvard, almost his only claim to fame was that he once swallowed hashish and had his dreams ("I could distinctly feel myself a fox . . .") duly recorded in William James's Principles of Psychology...
Although the puck was in Saint Mark's ice for most of the first period, the prep schoolers, behind the spectacular goaltending of Marty Fenton, held the Crimson at bay until 11:40, when Ned Almy caged the rubber from a scramble in front of the goal...
Last week, in his first London show in 15 years, Dali tried again with a crucifixion entitled Christ of St. John of the Cross. In his latest painting, Dali had cleared away most of the surrealist bric-a-brac, and contented himself with a spectacular downward view of Christ on the cross, suspended in dizzy midair above a placid seacoast...
...controls during this spectacular maneuver was Polish-born Test Pilot Janusz Zurakowski, who had worked out the first new aerobatic stunt in 20 years.* Squat, studious-looking Pilot Zurakowski flew with the R.A.F. after escaping from a Nazi prison camp, has three Luftwaffe kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt...