Word: allyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action was so dull at the U.S. tennis nationals at Forest Hills last week that the New York Times's Allyn Baum, looking for a new angle, snapped Peru's Alex Olmedo lunging for a ball. The Times airbrushed out the player and printed his shadow, making it look like an ancient cave painting (see cut). The picture made a telling point: amateur tennis was only a shadow of its former self...
...Other members: J. P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Henry C. Alexander; National Cash Register Chairman Stanley C. Allyn; Bechtel Corp. President S. D. Bechtel; Standard Oil of Calif. Chairman R. G. Follis; Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman; General Electric Finance Committee Chairman Philip D. Reed; CBS President Frank Stanton; International Packers Ltd. Chairman A. Thomas Taylor...
...prepares the bills for the customer, registers the return payments. Macy's may even extend N.C.R.'s system to inventory control, get daily reports on everything in stock, be able to increase its return on investment by 10% to 15%. Says N.C.R. Chairman Stanley Charles ("Chick") Allyn, 67: "The stage is set for a revolutionary change in the handling of paperwork...
Brains for Banks. While N.C.R. hopes to cash in with these and other new specialty products, Allyn feels that the big market is for small computers and automated office equipment for small as well as big companies. He is willing to let IBM and Remington Rand dominate the market for huge scientific computers while he guides N.C.R.'s research into the broader market for smaller business computers. "We're aiming for fields where we can sell more than one computer," says Allyn. "We would rather make the Chevrolet than the Rolls-Royce...
Patchen backed by jazz is something else. The jazzmen, led by Allyn Ferguson (who wrote the note on the jacket and was considerate enough to quote himself at one point), seem competent enough, but the effect of the two working on each other destroys more than it gives. Words blot out the music, and, as they say, vice versa. Patchen claims to have thought up jazz and poetry, love and marriage. Kenneth Rexroth, across the street and down the hill, claims the same thing. They both would do well to forget the unhappy, er, nuptuals...