Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they asked Millionaire Diplomat-Sportsman John Hay Whitney for a loan. Anxious to support Republicanism's leading moderate voice, Whitney chipped in $1,200,000, took a stock option, finally decided to convert the loan to a controlling interest and see what he and his Wall Street troops could do. Naturally, they began with an economy drive; another layer of the Trib's staff was peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from Mexico, Mo., who was replaced four months later by Newsweek's John Denson. Denson...
...quietly unprogrammed life outside his office. He and Wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1927 after a courtship that began when a mutual friend introduced them on a commuter train, live in a shyly elegant ranch house in Westfield, N.J., an hour's trip by train and ferryboat from Wall Street. Thomson, in Merrill Lynch fashion, is an eager train-and evening-out bridge player; though he has a bent-armed swing, he plays golf in the low 80s, has certificates to prove that he has thrice scored holes in one. His two children, both grown and married, remain close...
...methods and televised or computerized machinery is under way. Crowell-Collier has risen from 45½ to 51?, McGraw-Hill from 66¼ to 69, while shares of IBM, counting a three-for-two split and a new issue in May, have increased in value 5.1%. Recreation is big on Wall Street. And Polaroid, which has gone from 130¼ to 171½ since February, is its high flag. Even the money-spending programs of the Great Society offer opportunity to the selective investor: thus, medicare has injected new strength into drug and hospital-supply company stocks. Becton, Dickinson & Co. is up from...
...Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly sells his "chance in the world-to-come" for a nickel. But Himmelfarb's stubborn faith has confounded him, and now, it seems, he would like his nickel back. It is a nice story, and Fiedler...
...inviting patsy. "I sign check after check," he says, to "achieve a nirvana in which I don't have to look at anything I don't wish to." Con men and con women bilk him of a fortune and enclose his spirit brick by brick behind a wall of paranoia. A male model and his wife, whom he hires to smooth his way in New York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly...