Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal York Hotel last week, the big talk was about Holsteins. The Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada reported that in 1948, its best year yet, registered sales of purebred Holsteins reached a record total of 61,539 (there were all sorts of guesses on how many more sales went unregistered). Almost half of the animals had been exported, the largest number to the U.S., whose big demand for Holstein and other breeding stock has made Canada a leading exporter in the business. The rest went to 18 different countries, most of them in Latin America...
...Heir Huntington Hartford, 38, heretofore known chiefly as yachtsman, playboy and young man about models (in 1947 he started his own agency), went in seriously for the arts. He filed formal application with the Los Angeles City Zoning Commission to build and endow a 20-building, $150,000-a-year "School for Genius" on 41 acres in the nearby Santa Monica mountains. The prospective student body: recent university graduates in the fields of writing, painting, sculpture and music...
Bearded Headmaster Copping had already declared war on discipline of the young by their elders. He won a skirmish when Eric Wildman, a maker of whipping canes and head of Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, went up to Horsley Hall to lecture: Copping's students seized Caneman Wildman and flogged him with his own rods (TIME, Dec. 6). But 28-year-old Robert Copping had lots of other ideas for battles on a wider front...
...shrewd finance-man, gave it a whirl, got out while the getting was good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured...
Last week, despite this record, buyers were waiting in line when the Browns once again went on the block. One of them was William DeWitt, 46, who got his start in baseball selling peanuts and soda pop, and worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...