Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invested $6,500, which has leaped in value to $14,000. Big investors also flock to the funds: such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oklahoma, and Texas Christian University have invested part of their endowments. The funds have been copied abroad in Great Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Mexico. Ten years ago, most people had never heard of mutual funds; now, the term is a household word...
...temptation with Jack Lewis was to call him a banker's banker. He was that -careful, conscientious, orderly minded, a worker who went to Union Dime right after high school in West Orange, N.J. and trudged through the business from messenger to bookkeeper, from assistant head bookkeeper to assistant secretary, from assistant treasurer to treasurer to vice president to executive vice president and finally, in 1948, president. He dressed like a banker, in severe greys and blues, lived where the bankers live, out among the rolling lawns and towering oaks of Short Hills. He married, raised two children...
Author Lipton, a minor poet and novelist (Rainbow at Midnight, In Secret Battle), is well situated to serve as middleman between the beatniks and the squares. He owns a necktie, and he lives in a seaside slum of Los Angeles called Venice West, which is as cool and beat as a mentholated eggnog. Lipton himself is not really beat, but because of his advanced age (58) and full refrigerator, he is allowed to serve as Big Dada to the tribe...
There is a strong scent of social science in Venice West, and Lipton relates that all beatniks possess paperback editions of Margaret Mead. Love among the far out is casual and kaleidosexual, but just as among the savages of Samoa, there is a code. Said one beard, explaining why he rejected a girl's advances: "At the time, I was going with my wife." Beatniks prefer not to work, and when forced to, try to find employment suitable to their talents -such as deodorant testing for cosmetics firms. Shoplifting is only a stopgap...
...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...