Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES A. MARTENS Ann Arbor, Mich...
...poured the Exemplars. Scattering longhairs and spilling beers, Wilson, Holroyd, Playwright Michael (Yes-and After) Hastings, 20, Novelist Bill (The Divine and the Decay) Hopkins, 29, and their partisans pushed up to the Exertionists' table. "I'll crush you with my Daimler," screeched Holroyd's wife Ann, who is rich and has one. Wilson grabbed Logue by the hair and shoved him to the floor...
...lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked by telephone to the White House staff. As for the rest, the days fell into pattern: lunch, a nap, bridge (with Humphrey; veteran golfing companion Bill Robinson, Coca-Cola president; and Ellis Slater, retired president...
Pilot Beech's only trouble was making a profit: he was no financial man, left most of the details to his wife Olive Ann, and the company barely kept aloft. Cessna had even deeper problems. In the Depression he had to close his plant. What saved the company was Cessna's nephews, Dwane and Dwight Wallace, one an aeronautical engineer who once worked for Beech, the other a lawyer. By sweet-talking creditors they reopened the plant, and, though Clyde Cessna sat as president until he retired in 1934, the man in charge was Dwane Wallace, then only...
Beech and Cessna have learned that the U.S. businessman will pay handsomely to fly the right plane at the right price. Under President Olive Ann Beech, who took over when her husband died in 1950, and Vice President Jack Gaty, who runs the operating end, Beech's line starts with its famed single-engined Bonanza ($25,000), goes up to a far fancier Twin-Bonanza at $88,000, and ends with an eight-passenger peacetime version of its wartime D18, which costs $125,000. This year, like its competitors, Beech will try to fill in the chinks...