Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bright Future. By selling 10,000 shares (leaving him with 13,740), Romney got $900,000, of which $200,000 went to pay the capital-gains tax, another $200,000 for debts remaining from the first purchase, and $70,000 for tithing to Romney's Mormon church. His net...
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which has diversified from bowling into school and sports equipment, has been looking for a boatbuilder. It lost out on Chris-Craft Corp., the nation's largest motorboat maker, to NAFI Corp., which is controlled by Wall Street's Shields & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15...
* Columnist Walter Winchell reports that Zeckendorf and his son were riding through Manhattan when William Jr. pointed to a skyscraper and said, "Dad, I hear that building can be bought for $50 million." "Yes," replied Zeckendorf, "but they want $50,000 cash."
The best, and one of the most eccentric, of France's New Realist writers is Claude Simon, author of the powerful and murky novel, The Wind (TIME, April 13). His current book is a little less powerful and somewhat more murky. Author Simon's moody, fitful sentences blow...
Through the haze, objects, people and fragments of speech are seen and heard with heightened clarity. Mood and character are conveyed with subtlety and force. But complicated events and relationships often are lost to view.