Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taylor did a wartime stint as a dollar-a-year man (much of it in Washington procuring arms for the British), at war's end decided to branch out from brewing and began borrowing heavily to buy Massey-Ferguson stock. His fellow Canadians did not have much faith in Taylor; the betting at the Toronto Club was 5-50 that he would go broke. The odds looked prophetic when he soon overextended himself. But, with superb ingenuity and timing, he formed Argus so that he could sell its stock to raise money to pay off his loans. As partners...
Once a Trotskyite. In the past, Macdonald was best known for his political commentary. After a youthful stint with FORTUNE and The Partisan Review, he started his own magazine, Politics, in 1944 and was its principal contributor. Once (briefly) a Trotskyite, he now proclaimed himself a philosophical anarchist and a pacifist. The times, Macdonald wrote, called for "attention, reporting exposure, analysis, satire, indignation, lamentation." In the five years Politics was published, Macdonald supplied all of these in abundance. Long before it was permitted in liberal circles, Macdonald was an outspoken antiCommunist. Like George Orwell, he directed his fiercest fire...
William Fitts Ryan (it's not FitzRyan), is a tall and solidly built man of 43 with bright Irish eyes and a quiet voice. The son of a judge, Ryan was graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School, served his stint in World War II combat, and worked for seven years in the N.Y. District Attorney's office. With this background, he might have chosen to scramble quickly up the existing political ladder...
...started out studying sculpture at the American Academy in Rome, but concluded that as a sculptor he was not good enough ever to be great. He returned to Cambridge, Mass., to take on a job as Harvard's assistant dean of freshmen. After a wartime stint as an Army education officer, he was suddenly plucked out of Harvard's administration by President Conant to become, at 37, dean of the dormant School of Education Trade School to Liberal Arts. He went to work to eliminate the trade-school atmosphere, put real scholars from science and the humanities...
...Anderson longed for wings. Annapolis had given him a short course in aviation, and in 1930, following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...