Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikan himself had thought of studying for the priesthood, but dropped the idea about the time he graduated from Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The late Coach George Keogan of Notre Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great...
...result of all the Page One squabble: attendance at concerts had picked up-perhaps, mused one symphonygoer, because other ticket holders thought they might get to see somebody wrap a cello around somebody else's neck...
...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
Farmers and traders, who had thought that grain prices had hit bottom because they were at Government-support levels, were fooled; the artificial props could not support the weight of the glut. For various reasons, including lack of storage space, farmers had been forced to sell below support levels. Cash corn was down 36? below the support level; September wheat, 19?. Said one trader: "It looks as if the Government may have bitten off more than it can chew...
Stockholders, who thought the rainy day had arrived, last spring clamored that the money should be spent for dividends. Curtiss-Wright paid out $17,000,000 but the stockholders were not quieted. Still faced with rebellion, Vaughan upped himself to board chairman two months ago, raised Wright Aeronautical Vice President William C. Jordan to president and asked Investment Banker Paul V. Shields to help him put some new life into the company. Last week the new life came in-and Curtiss-Wright got one of the biggest shakings-up of its 30-year career...