Word: allyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...president and chief executive. Silberstein, who last year voted four of his men on the eleven-man Fairbanks, Morse board, won only one more. Bob Morse will also have five directors, and the board will have an impartial member, Chicago Investment Banker J. Douglas Casey, president of A. C. Allyn...
...Jews. A product of Yale and Harvard Business School, Brownell has worked for American Smelting since 1927. Into his job as president moved R. Worth Vaughan, 53. ¶ Robert S. Oelman, 47, executive vice president of the National Cash Register Co. since 1950, was named president, succeeding Stanley C. Allyn, 65, who moved up to board chairman but remains chief executive officer. Dayton-born Oelman finished at Dartmouth summa cum laude in 1931, spent 18 months in Europe as a graduate student, came home to a $12.50-a-week N.C.R. file-clerk job, soon shifted to advertising and promotion, became...
...Army sergeants simply do not assault colonels, not even verbally. The sergeant's function to provide friction--thus making the colonel's refusal to abandon the case seem more heroic--would be better fulfilled by a quiet, grumbling misunderstanding than by his present direct attack on the colonel. Allyn McLerie's performance as the colonel's (female) secretary is generally competent, but somehow their relationship does not seem convincing because both of them are too restrained. Her part is interesting, however, as she represents that feminine phenomenon, the not-so-sharp girl with pretensions to intellect...
Today, Boston's seven publishing houses--Little, Brown; Houghton Mifflin; Ginn; Beacon Press; D. C. Heath; Atlantic Monthly Books; and Allyn and Bacon--bear little resemblance to their ancestral forebears. The monotype and the large commercial enterprise have supplanted moveable type and the hand craftsman. Where once a printer set every individual letter, made a separate impression for each page, and bound them all under a fine leather cover, now machines handle almost every phase of the printing process...
Having produced a work of craftsmanship, the educational publisher becomes a powerful force in moulding outlook of a child. One series of books prepared by Ginn, D. C. Heath, or the somewhat smaller Allyn and Bacon can follow a child through as many as nine years of his education...