Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...After taking his A.B. at Weston, Mass, and M.A. at Boston College, he taught for the order in the Philippines for three years, then he went to the Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. for four years of theology. In his third year there, he was ordained, aged 28. He put in two years of theological graduate study at Gregorian University in Rome and various other centers of Catholic learning in Europe before taking up his lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater...
...Dealers' Delight. Until the 16th century and the time of Prince Karl the princes of Liechtenstein were collectors not so much of art as of booty. Then Karl, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans at work turning out paintings and works of silver and gold. His son, Karl Eusebius was even more ardent. He was the delight of Vienna and Antwerp art dealers, for he would buy up whole collections at a time, and added such names to his catalogue as Memling...
Kirby does no jumping. He inherited some $50 million from his father, put most of it into blue chips and let his profits rise. He is the largest single stockholder in the Woolworth Co., in the New York Central, in Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. as well as in Alleghany. Alleghany not only controls the Central and I.D.S. but also owns 51% of the Class B stock of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
When Young died, Kirby simplified the company's capital structure, placed the preferred stock on a current-dividend basis and let Alleghany's cash board build up. His reluctance to put Alleghany's cash to work caused a break with the Murchisons, as well as Young's widow who sold her stock to the Murchisons to abet their proxy battle...
...also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced a new merger plan to put together a railroad giant that could be the nation's most profitable transportation complex...