Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Griffin was the author of the 1948 articles criticizing Ivy League colleges...
...story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve an artistic resolution than it can supply a practical answer. As realism, it also suffers a good deal from very seldom seeming real. Author Reines is always too conscious of his social issues, too ready with a speech. What is most disastrous of all, the actual writing is far too often inept...
Readers of the Saturday Evening Post would be greatly disappointed if Alexander Botts, the famed sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Co., were not up to his neck in trouble. When last heard from (in Author William Hazlett Upson's latest story), Botts had bogged a scraper so deep in the Canadian muskeg that not even his mighty Earthworm tractor could pull it out. But Botts managed it; he used rockets, for a jet-assisted takeoff...
...rockets have yet been used by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of East Peoria, Ill., which often sounds like the "Earthworm City" of Author Upson's stories (he worked there as a mechanic). But last week "Cat" was ready to bring out something almost as powerful. It was a new model diesel engine, the biggest (12 cylinders), most powerful (500 h.p.), and costliest ($14,000) Cat had ever made...
...Peoria. But big Cat hit its fastest pace after 1941, when Louis Bontz Neumiller stepped into its $75,000-a-year presidency. Unlike Earthworm's whip-cracking President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike...