Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trouble struck swiftly as the field pounded through the final turn in the gist running of the Belmont Stakes, third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner...
Others are not so optimistic. The supermarkets and chains have become so powerful that they are often in a position to force a middle-sized producer to turn out a private label for his product for them at a lower price, or they will not buy from him at all. The real fear is that the supermarkets, in their increasing competition with each other, will put such a premium on profit margins that they will squeeze out more and more name brands to the ultimate harm of the consumer, who has benefited most from the new products that have been...
...than doubled. Kentucky-born Harold Helm went to work for the 135-year-old Chemical Bank in 1920 straight from Princeton, was made assistant cashier six years later at 25, one of the youngest men in the company's history in that job. Coolly efficient and able to turn on charm to convince a client or win over a potential ally. Helm became vice president in 1929, first vice president in 1946, president in 1947, finally took over as chairman in 1956, when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts...
...TURN AGAIN TIGER, by Samuel Selvon (246 pp.; St. Martin...
Like late election returns, posthumous books rarely turn the tide of opinion for or against a writer, and So Be It is no exception. It was Gide's luck and genius to do a few things extremely well. In The Counterfeiters, he wrote a novel that must rank in any top-ten list of the 20th century. The four volumes of his Journals are a matchless record of self-search and self-revelation. Renowned as a man of letters, Gide was perhaps more influential and controversial as a kind of culture hero of his time. His cult of untrammeled...