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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gout in his arm has bothered him intermittently, and he punches a bag occasionally and watches his diet (by stinting on meat proteins and fried foods) to strengthen his throwing-even while working as an off-season customers' man on Wall Street. He has never won 20 games in a season, partly because the Yankees pulled him out of the regular pitching rotation to use him as a "stopper" in the big games. In 1960 he had his worst year, 12-9, although he redeemed himself with two shutouts against Pittsburgh in the World Series...
...Wall Street's current caution is thus selective and its general mood optimistic. "In the next six months or a year," says top Securities Analyst Edmund Tabell of Walston & Co., "the market will move higher under entirely new leaders. These will be the glamour stocks of five years ago-chemicals, paper, aluminum, rubber." Says Bruce Dorman, research director for Reynolds & Co. in San Francisco: "Copper issues have been very big, and machinery, steels and chemicals are all doing well." Nor are all the professionals ready even to write off the 1960-61 glamour issues-especially if the economists should...
...Federal Case. "Alpert has been accused of far more incompetence than he deserves," says one of Wall Street's leading railroad analysts. "Very few men could have done a better job, given the circumstances...
...Order. The turning point for Chris-Craft came in early 1960 when Harsen Smith, beset by family disagreements, sold out for $40 million to NAFI Corp., a Wall Street-run venture company controlled by famed Yachtsman Cornelius Shields. 66. and his investment banker brother Paul. To replace Smith as chief executive officer, the Shieldses installed bluff, chunky President Harry Coll, 52. who had been with Chris-Craft since 1939. Even before the Shields brothers took over. Coll had sent his close friend. Sales Vice President Charles R. Burgess, 51. off to survey the company's dealer organization. "Time...
...Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character can do about his fate except to take...