Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brower and Beckett have run Transamerica's conglomerate bundle of businesses "in tandem," as Beckett likes to put it. Salesman Brower, who will stay on in a less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a former stockbroker, has run the rest of Transamerica's interests out of an incongruously tiny (30 employees) headquarters in an unprepossessing old building near San Francisco's nightclub belt. He spends nearly half his time jetting around Transamerica's expanding realm, likes to ask fellow air passengers what they think...
...Tandem. Today, Transamerica has resources of $2.3 billion, controls 20 major subsidiaries, has offices in all 50 states, France and Canada. It has 14,000 employees, more than 100,000 stockholders and 7,000,000 customers. It writes nearly every kind of insurance through 15 subsidiaries, including Occidental Life Insurance Co., the ninth largest insurers in North America, leases autos and plant equipment, offers consumer-finance and mortgage banking, develops real estate. It is scouting for a mutual fund and a savings and loan association with an eye to further improving its profits-which reached $39 million last year...
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's pays gleeful tribute to the most durable tandem sight gag ever sprung from Hollywood's Golden Age of comedy. Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson (Days of Thrills and Laughter, When Comedy Was King) distills the best of this hilarious film from one-and two-reelers made before 1930. His narrative is merely connective tissue, and for no clear reason he rabbets in glimpses of Charley Chase and Max Davidson, two nearly forgotten second bananas from the Hal Roach studio. But blinking, head-scratching Stan Laurel and slow-burning, tie-twiddling Oliver...
...defensive duo of seniors Bobby Clark and Kevin Burke checked hard and let little through to goalies Fitz-simmons and senior Dex Newton. The second defense tandem of Chip Scammon and Bob Carr was on the ice for both Bowdoin scores and was the Crimson's weak point last night...
Starting center forward Jim Saltonstall and outsides Charlie Njoku and Dudley Blodget will all be back next fall, and should be joined on the line by the sophomore tandem of Bill Schaefer and Lutz Hoeppner that worked as relief insides this year...