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Though National sells its products in 92 foreign countries, President Stanley Charles Allyn thinks that it still has worlds to conquer. Last week he set out to conquer at least a new frontier. For about $1,000,000, National will buy 80% control of the Computer Research Corp., a Los Angeles company which produces small and relatively inexpensive ($35,000 to $245,000) electronic computers for the armed forces and industry. In Computer Research, Allyn is buying a big stake in the future of electronic brains. With the help of Computer's staff, he hopes to turn out electronic...
Early Bird. Wisconsin-born and educated, "Chick" Allyn has taken National a long way since, as a youth of 22, he got a job at the company's Dayton, Ohio headquarters. Thinking to impress the boss, he got to work at 7:45 a.m. the first day. He was sharply told: "At National we start at 6:30." In three years Early Bird Allyn was assistant controller, in four, controller. At 27 he was made a director, and twelve years ago, at 49, president...
...Allyn expanded his exports, spent heavily on research to develop new accounting and bookkeeping machines, including one that figures payrolls and writes checks while automatically allowing for withholding taxes, social security and other deductions. Result: National's sales have risen fivefold to $212 million in 1951, its net has jumped 470% to $11 million...
...settings, such pleasant songs as My Darling, My Darling, and a flashy Brazilian dance number in which Bolger imagines he is a dashing Spanish don. Besides Dancer Bolger, the picture borrows three other leading players from the 1948 Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley's singing roommate...
...supporting players I would single out Allyn Moss as particularly impressive, but Michael Mabry and Pirie MacDonald were also more than satisfactory...