Word: optimistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimist named Harry Engel flew west to Guam last week on an unusual mission: to set up the first U.S. commercial radio station in the Far East. Its owner and operator: Optimist Engel himself...
Postscript. In Los Angeles, after giving a talk to the Optimist Club on "How To Train Your Memory," Sigmund Blomberg shook hands all around and departed, leaving his hat behind...
...financial columnist for the Boston Post, Washington Waters often sounds like an irrepressible optimist. "The stock market," says his column, "may truly be a kind of Aladdin's lamp which will produce great riches for those who know how to rub it." But the rub, as Washington Waters is well aware, is knowing how. Waters knows. He is one of the few financial columnists in the world who can write about the stock market that way with real authority. By rubbing the lamp the right way himself, he has amassed a fortune of $20 million plus in stocks...
Bear Fox. But Fox is no optimist now; he is a bear. Nobody who followed the advice of Waters got burned in the big market shake-outs of the past three weeks. Waters had been predicting such a turndown since he started his column last April. Nor did Fox hesitate to tell where he thought the market was headed after both the industrials and rails broke through their previous year's lows last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 7). Wrote Fox last week: "The bear market has been confirmed and will probably go further down. There is no hurry about buying...
...harder (twelve to 15 hours a day; 3,000 letters a week), but he is more relaxed and his desk is neater-it is arranged in well-defined piles, not in the huge, disorderly mounds of the opposition days. Said Capehart last week: "I'm by nature an optimist; I like to do constructive things, to produce things . . . I'd much prefer to sell something than be against...