Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next man to make a big mark on A. T. & T. was President Walter S. Gifford, a financial wizard and career telephone man who came up from the bottom. Gifford steered the burgeoning company from 1925 to 1948 through boom, depression and World War II, laid the foundation for its explosive postwar growth. During Gifford's reign, the Bell System's operating revenues rocketed from $655 million to $2.2 billion, and its phones multiplied like little black Shmoos from 11.2 million to 28.5 million. Gifford guided A. T. & T. intact through a federal antitrust investigation during...
...devil was abroad in Salem all right, but he was not in the witches. He was in the people who burned the witches." TIME [Jan.5] should know that no witch, wizard or warlock was burned in the Salem-New England madness. They were either imprisoned or hanged, with the exception of one man who was pressed to death...
...only a naive reader of these reports could suppose that the troubles of the women's colleges were merely financial, or that they could be solved by putting a Wall Street wizard in every president's office. The budgetary crisis is actually only one dramatic facet of the story, the one problem which even a college president cannot ignore. This unwinding story can only be understood if we turn away from the reddening ledgers and look at the parents, students, teachers, and philanthropists whose hopes and fears determine the economic condition of the college...
...Horse's Mouth (Lopert; United Artists). The stream of consciousness, as it comes boiling out of Gulley Jimson, the painter hero of the late Joyce Cary's masterpiece of monologue, is a wizard's brew-wine of genius mixed with just plain sewerage-that may be too rich for the average moviegoer's blood. Cary in his book (TIME, Feb. 6. 1950) displayed the Irish talent for tirade in formidable measure, and he revealed a teeming and generous vision of life, a Rabelaisian sense of comedy. To make a straight commercial movie out of such...
...entirely different from all ancient and modern art hitherto known from Easter Island." Heyerdahl became an initiate of sacred rites. He crept round the island at night, eating chickens buried according to formula in earth ovens, muttering incantations to placate hostile aku-akus, shouting out ritual invocations such as: "Wizard Juan, stand up for good luck!" Only slowly did it dawn on Heyerdahl that the natives might be hipsters who were taking a square for a ride. One native was caught scattering potsherds in an excavation site; Mayor Atan himself twice salted secret caves with stone sculptures that...