Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notable byproduct of Vogel's victory was his apparent defeat of two mighty Wall Street investment houses−Lehman Bros, and Lazard Freres−who are dissatisfied with Loew's management (TIME, Nov. 12). Lehman and Lazard figured to control about 3,000,000 of the 5,336,777 shares outstanding. Yet last week they voted only 150,000 shares for the rebel cause. A Lehman-Lazard spokesman contended that the two firms can still control approximately 3,000,000 shares. But they do not appear to want to lead a proxy fight themselves, nor do they support...
...will take harried President Vogel more than a friendly board to put Loew's tangled affairs back in order. Despite many economies, he admitted that Loew's last quarter, ending Aug. 31, "was very bad." Wall Street buzzes that the company had to borrow $5,000,000 recently to meet payrolls, that its moviemaking operations are losing $1,000,000 a month, and that Loew's may be forced to pass its usual 25? cash dividend this quarter. Said Millionaire Tomlinson, who sees his $5,000,000 investment in Loew's growing slimmer and slimmer...
Nature's Way seems one more frantic farce that relies for its laughs on gamy subject matter rather than witty treatment, and that, when its back is to the wall, literally has the bricks come flying out of it. What chiefly seems odd in all this is that Herman Wouk should be the author. But as the show proceeds, it becomes plain that there is a message in its madness−that with every tasteless gag, Wouk is bopping whatever repels him as newfangled or decadent, including Picasso...
...from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute is the working of his law, says Parkinson, that "the officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all." A U.S. example of Parkinson's Law was cited not long ago by the Wall Street Journal, which pointed out that while U.S. foreign aid has been almost halved between 1953 and 1957, the staff administering the program has nearly doubled...
...onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a Roman Catholic contemplative order in 1914, left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying...