Word: varney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
...magazine field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
Takeoff. In tiny Varney Air Transport, operating 520 miles through Texas and Colorado, Six found his future. He bought half the company (100 shares at $500 each), raised another $90,000 to help buy three twin-engined Lockheed 125, and became Varney vice president of operations at $400 a month. Varney changed its name to Continental, and Six, made president in 1938, slowly plotted routes outward from Pueblo to Denver, by 1948 had 2,772 miles through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. As a further step, Six made interchange deals with American Airlines, United and Braniff. which permitted...