Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeding aging (72) Founder Harry F. Sinclair, who was ready to leave responsibility to younger men. "Spence" Spencer, born in Jasper, N.Y., graduated as a lawyer from the University of Nebraska and became general counsel of Producers & Refiners Corp. in 1927. When it merged with Sinclair in 1934, Spencer went along. Said Harry Sinclair (who becomes board chairman) : "No changes in major policies are to be anticipated...
Lord, who preferred to build motorcars, quit Nuffield with the observation: "I am pigheaded, and Nuffield has his opinions." He went to work for Austin Motors, became its chairman when Lord Austin died...
...shyly appeared on the steps, little Innes gave her one shrewd glance and screeched joyously: "Arthur! Hooray! It's another baby!" To while away the hours, Arthur began to write stories. "This morning after Breakfast," runs a typical note in Innes' boyhood diary of those days, "Arthur went downstairs and began to write a story about a man with three eyes, while I was upstairs enventing a new waterworks that will send rokets over the moon in two minutes . . . then it was a quarter past one, so, I had to go and put on the last potatoes...
...Doyle's life. The first followed his break with the Catholic Church, which had left him shaken and worried. One day, when he was wondering whether or not he should read Leigh Hunt on the comic dramatists of the Restoration (the Restoration was sometimes bawdy), he went to a séance. Unasked, the medium "received" and passed on to Doyle a "spirit-message": "Tell him not to read Leigh Hunt's book." Doyle was thunderstruck...
...tried to shake Holmes off by demanding "impossible" prices for Holmes stories-only to find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes-and sick to death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned...