Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women-as his granddaddy would have known the way stations on the Overland Trail. So he went into business on a shoestring as Horizons, Unlimited, and took for his trademark an old Navajo double-eagle design (see cover). His first customer would be a tough one: a wolverine of Wall Street, slinky Copper Calhoon...
...command from the outset, and when Brown's intercollegiate ace Carl Paulson was nosed out by Jerry Gorman in the 220 freestyle, it was clear which way the tide would continue to flow. Paulson acquitted himself, however, in the closest event of the meet, as he touched the wall a stroke ahead of the Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer in the 200 yard breast-stroke...
This top-snow, along with the two and a half feet already built up should make wildcat, the Little Head Wall, and the Sherman trail a snow bunnies' delight...
...Curb's prime need now is for a boss who knows 1) the ins & outs of Government securities regulations and 2) his way around Washington. Francis Truslow knows both. A Yale graduate who later studied law at Harvard, Truslow worked for two Wall Street legal firms, helped develop regulations under the Securities Exchange Act, headed the Government's Rubber Development Corp. No new-broom wielder, Truslow plans "to do a great deal of listening . . . before indulging in any perceptible amount of talking...
...soon found myself butting my head against a stone wall, however. I can point out four reasons for the fiasco, the first of which your writer touched upon--"lack of interest by local commanders." Second, the ability of the I & E personnel themselves was inadequate. The War Department Circulars regarding the selection of I & E personnel prescribed men of professional training and caliber--lawyers, newspapermen, etc. I was flattered when selected, considering myself a green college undergraduate who hardly satisfied the prerequisites. When I arrived at Washington and Lee, however, I found my classmates were everything from butchers...