Word: topeka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dale E. (for Elbert) Sharp, 54, executive vice president since 1955 of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., was named president and a director to succeed William L. Kleitz, who died Nov. 19. A graduate of Washburn University of Topeka (A.B., 1924) and New York University (M.B.A., 1928), Kansas-born Dale Sharp started in banking with Manhattan's old National Bank of Commerce, later absorbed by Guaranty Trust, taught economics at Bucknell University and finance at New York University before joining Guaranty Trust in 1931, was named vice president in charge of Guaranty's Midwest banking...
...Topeka High Maryland
...tune with this hopeful emphasis was Topeka's famed Dr. Karl Menninger, who pleaded for more practical help for patients, less theory of a kind that often inspires fear: "The word schizophrenia becomes a damning designation. To have it once applied to a young man can be to ruin a career, despite all evidence of subsequent healthiness." Psychiatrists, argued Dr. Menninger, ought to regard all mental illness as the same in quality and differing only in quantity: "We all have mental illness of different degrees at different times, and sometimes some of us are much worse or much better...
...male, Ken Finkel of Atlanta, left one "l" out of favillous. Sandra Owen was unshakable on sequela. Mary Gilliland of Fort Worth hesitated on butyraceous but managed to get by, and redheaded Dana Bennett, 13, of Denver, tossed off ovoviviparous as if it were cat. Poor Jolitta Schlehuber of Topeka, however, substituted an "s" for a "c" in racemiform. And so there were three...
...Ernest Sterling Marsh, 54, was elected president of the century-old Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., longest U.S. railroad (13,076 miles) and fourth largest in operating revenue ($590 million in 1956), succeeding Fred G. Gurley, 68, Santa Fe president since 1944, who becomes board chairman. Marsh left the eleventh grade in 1918 to join the Santa Fe as a clerk in Clovis, N. Mex., went to Chicago as chief clerk in the president's office in 1942. Two years later, he was made assistant to the president, and in 1948 became vice president in charge of finance...