Word: alpheus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices from Rome to San Francisco, the world's biggest brokerage house will change its name-which is really a household word-on March 1 from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. The switch was caused by the resignation of General Partner Alpheus Crosby (Alphie) Beane, 47, but it is really a long-needed tribute to the firm's chief executive, Directing Partner Winthrop Hiram Smith...
Confidence & Growth. In 1938 Charlie Merrill went back to the brokerage business. Combining first with Pierce, later with Brokers Charles Erasmus Fenner and Alpheus Crosby Beane, he set out to help rebuild U.S. confidence in stocks by offering investors the most conservative advice, cutting out service fees. In 1949 alone, Merrill Lynch's brokers gave lectures to 30,000 women in 65 cities, spent some $400,000 on advertising...
...which He would hardly have done if she had had real sons to look after her; 4) there is strong textual support for the view that the James and Joseph mentioned as Christ's brethren are the same James and Joseph elsewhere mentioned as the sons of Alpheus and Mary (sister of the Virgin Mary...
Dissection in Secret. Curator A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor chose 100-odd prints and paintings calculated to fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...
Last week, after four months of combing through the alphabet, the trustees announced that they had stopped at the letter K. The man they picked, out of 641 candidates proposed: Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, 40, a University of Chicago vice president and a big, shaggy, good-humored man whom Hutchins once referred to as "240 pounds and all sweetheart...