Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple...
...getting your share of the prosperity?" They thought they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside the offices of a Jasper-linked building society that had apparently put more than $10 million of its capital into questionable loans...
There is very little doctors can do about it. One promising vaccine against "B"-type viruses developed at Johns Hopkins University (TIME, March 4, 1957) has not yet proved its worth; the few vaccines against "A" encephalitis forms are still laboratory curiosities. Nor have health authorities often had success in wiping out the mosquito vectors. In some cases where encephalitis-carrying insects in a given area were wiped out, it is suspected that the virus simply sought out new vectors...
...will spend his time laying down broad policy. Buffalo-born Gaylord graduated from Princeton and the American Institute of Banking, left the investment business in 1941 to join Bell as assistant to the president, quickly rose to take over as president of Bell's helicopter subsidiary in Fort Worth in 1951. As president, Gaylord will divide his time between Fort Worth and Buffalo, regroup the company's defense operations in an effort to stem sagging sales...
...Sept. 25 An Evening with Jimmy Durante (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Even though he is saddled with such guest stars as Lawrence Welk, Sal Mineo and Bobby Darin, the Old Schnozzola ought to be able to snort up enough enthusiasm to make this rare TV appearance worth the trouble of tuning in. Color...