Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promise that at last the team is ready to cope with the best the East can offer. The varsity will not meet a better center than Clarkson's Mel Tomalty, except for B.U.'s Bob Marquis, but against the Crimson, Tomalty looked like a man deserted by his last friend...
...then the shimmy was something that belonged to the past, along with speakeasies and a stock market where anybody could cash in. Gone, too, were Gilda's fortune and her health. She filed a petition in bankruptcy and went out to Colorado to pull herself together on a friend's ranch. Later, there were a few moments of notoriety: she stirred up the town of Sterling, Colo, by consenting to appear at a high school dance; she sued Columbia Pictures for a million dollars, claiming that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy (she settled...
...Young's successful proxy fight to win control of the New York Central in 1954. But after the Central victory, Phillips fell out with his boss. Since then, he has been at war with everyone connected with Alleghany, first with Young, then with Young's old friend, Alleghany Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67, and all his allies. Phillips' complaint: Alleghany's executives were conducting Alleghany's affairs "primarily in the interests of themselves and a small group of insiders." He argued his case vigorously...
...that gave 130,000 shares, or almost half of Alleghany's voting stock in Investors Diversified, to Texas Millionaire Clint W. Murchison. He also complained that Young, Kirby, et al had illegally used Alleghany funds during the Central fight by making loans that enabled Young's good friend Murchison to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock, thus insuring a proxy victory. Hauling the defendants through one court after another, Phillips demanded that they reimburse the company for the use of its funds-and pay it out of their own pockets. This was the unkindest...
...Japan, and when Italy surrendered in World War II, he and his family, interned, nearly starved to death in a prison camp near Nagoya. Meeting is the elaborate, graceful story of Maraini's 1955 return and rediscovery of his "adopted homeland." A Buddhist scroll hanging in a friend's house provides Author Maraini with one of his key themes: "Free yourself from attachment to useless things." The Japanese mind is obsessed with the transience of things, which may help to explain both gimcrack exports and the scroll paintings of ukiyo-e ("the floating world") of the theater...