Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...races approach, speculation and rumor spread eagerly, and spying and the cunning release of mis-information become increasingly valuable. One afternoon when the heavies were commuting from Henley to their lodgings at Shiplake, someone asked the Crimson manager what time the train left. "6:32," he replied. By the next morning it was common knowledge that the heavies had rowed a trial heat in 6.32, only two seconds short of the record...
...Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...
...future corporation presidents has long been Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Last week European leaders gathered at Fontainebleau Palace, south of Paris, to inaugurate a Harvard-style Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. Chief purpose of the new Institut will be to train a whole new generation of European businessmen capable of operating the expanded businesses made possible by the European Common Market...
Died. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), 38. golden-throated tenor who aspired to be a second Caruso but lacked the self-discipline to train his voice, went instead on a ten-year whirl of Hollywood, where he grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued...
...Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The long trek westward is on again. This time, as the train makes up in St. Louis for The Greenhorn Story, a gullible traveler (Mickey Rooney) is subjected to the sharp dealing of just about every salesman in Missouri...