Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior partner in the management consultant firm of Booz. Allen & Hamilton, John Lawrence Burns, 48. got a reputation for being able to get quickly to the heart of a corporate problem-and solve it. One of his chief clients was Radio Corp. of America, which Burns has advised for the last ten years. Last week RCA used Burns to solve a major problem: where to find a younger president with broad experience and knowledge of the corporation. The new president: Burns. He will succeed President Frank Folsom, 62, who will become chairman of the executive committee...
Consultant Burns started out in metallurgical work after leaving Northeastern University, went on for master's and doctor's degrees in metallurgy at Harvard (where he also taught), joined Manhattan's Booz. Allen in 1941. He has helped work out policy and organization programs for more than 30 of the 100 largest U.S. corporations, supervised basic reorganization programs for the U.S. Navy and the Veterans Administration...
...lure Burns away from Booz, Allen, RCA gave him a ten-year contract providing for a $150,000 salary, with in creases to $200,000 over the next five years (plus an option on RCA stock). But it was not money that drew Burns to RCA. Says he: "I am attracted by the challenge." At RCA, new President Burns will find no shortage of challenges...
...INCREDIBLE IVAR KREUGER (301 pp.) - Allen Churchill - Rinehart...
...neither popes nor accounting firms could fully resolve the why and how of Ivar Kreuger. Perhaps the French came closest when they dubbed him L'Olseleur, the bird charmer. In disinterring the Kreuger story, Author Allen Churchill (no kin to Winston), onetime managing editor of the American Mercury, enjoys the valuable quarter-century distance that lends disenchantment. His research is sometimes superficial and his prose tabloidish, but he captures the flair and flavor of the Napoleonic con man who was the Match King...