Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this move for two or three years because of increasing outside activities." Rebellious Captive. Other retiring directors had even less to say. For the record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while...
...grow every year since he took over. He threw out the magazine's ponderous, technical farm features, replaced them with over-the-fence news for farmers. To separate his rural but non-farm readers from farmers, in 1943 he bought the newsweekly Pathfinder, later changed its name to Town Journal (circ. 1,592,615), and reset its editorial sights to lure small-town nonfarm readers. To increase Farm Journal circulation, Publisher Patterson and President Richard J. Babcock, 43, started three regional editions, printing specialized news and information for farmers in all sections of the U.S. Ad revenue climbed from...
...Ignorant men in high places," snorted Higgins, as he kept on looking. In 1892. promising "millions," he persuaded three fellow Beaumonters to back him, but all he returned was three dry Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed...
...were a mass party of planners and share-the-wealthers, founded a generation before by the Gracchi. The Optimates were a conservative elite of class-conscious constitutionalists. Marius was a leader of the Populars, and in 88 B.C. the Optimates, under the generalship of Sulla, ran him out of town and nailed the heads of his leading followers up in the Forum. Later Sulla was to spare young Julius, but warned, "One day this man may destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...