Word: swansons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years later, Boyer joined with a young entrepreneur named Robert Swanson, then 28, to exploit this amazing-and, in some eyes, dangerous-new technology. Only lately has their firm, Genentech Inc.. begun to turn a profit. But its prototype bacterial factories have been extremely busy. They have already produced half a dozen different substances, including insulin, human growth hormone and interferon, the antiviral agent being investigated as a cancer cure. Genentech (pronounced jeh-nen-tek) has also paid off handsomely for Boyer (his initial investment: $500). Offered publicly last October, its stock shot up within 20 minutes...
...cowboys are doing all right these days. Gordon Snidow has a gold watch that is like to give him a sprained wrist. Jack Swanson hasn't quit breaking horses, because he is only 53, but he is in a position to ease off a bit. Fred Fellows doesn't have to rope in rodeos for a living any more, which is just as well, since roping is no living at all, unless you can eat the silver belt buckles they give away for prizes. Joe Beeler is pushing the outer limits of legal bliss, because he doesn...
...Jack Swanson, a big, easy-talking fellow, was in his 20s, breaking horses up in Oregon, when he got a box of paints for Christmas. As a boy he'd drawn horses. Now he took a horse out into the corral, tied it to a post and began to paint. And felt sweat break out on his forehead. "I had never had the experience of being so excited." So he enrolled in art school in Oakland, taking with him a couple of his horses. He lasted less than a term. "They'd have all these pots...
...Swanson's horses was a stud named Amigo S, who had some speed on him, and in 1947 Swanson began racing on the quarter-horse circuit. Riding without boots, to cut weight, he twice tied the world record for the furlong (12.3 seconds). Then Amigo S came up lame, and Swanson found an art school at Carmel, Calif. near the ocean, so he could exercise him in salt water. Mornings, he broke horses to make a living-"I'd have half a dozen of them lined up in the corral, already saddled, and I'd ride them...
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson...