Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of five male and three female investors has acquired a 42% interest in the bank for $2.9 million and has offered $7.1 million for the rest. The new investors have not even hinted that they might replace the bank's female president, Neale Godfrey, but some First Women supporters are concerned that women could lose control of the bank. Says Catherine Maiorisi, a First Women's shareholder: "The bank is in an identity crisis. It should be run by women...
...Late Night with David Letterman for not running news inserts. The show's main problem seems to be a failure of nerve. It tries to break from the morning mold but retains enough Today-like elements to make the entertainment features jarring. Another sort of host -- a folksy Arthur Godfrey type, perhaps -- might have made the format more palatable. Even Smith and Hartley could eventually relax and turn into pleasant morning companions. Right now they are working too hard at chemistry to notice that the ingredients are not jelling...
...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
...Performers: Harry Howell, Dave Johnston, Tim Taylor, Godfrey Wood...
Blair notched his ninth career (and first playoff) shutout with the victory and became the third Harvard netminder--following Godfrey Wood in 1962 and Wade Lau in 1982--in history to record an ECAC Tournament shutout. It was the 13th whitewash in the 25 years of the tourney...