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Young Henry Ford II, quietly signing up a new team to help run his empire, last week found the quarterback. He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000. Breech will furnish what the company has needed-an overall coordinator second in command to Young Henry. A man who can shrewdly keep tabs on the complexities of costs, production and marketing, Ernie Breech is regarded as one of the ablest men in the auto and aviation industries...
...Breech began work for General Motors' subsidiary, Yellow Truck, as comptroller, moved up fast. In 1933, he became board chairman of North American Aviation, eventually landed in a G.M. vice presidential chair. In 1942, G.M.'s brown-haired boy was elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With...
Without his knowledge, radicals had used the elder Svirsky's store for a meeting place. The family fied to America, settled in Brooklyn, and moved to Hartford, Connecticut when Svirsky was 13. There he busied himself unlearning a William Bendix accent and editing the high school literary review...
...little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
Burlesquing all giveaway shows-including his own-Truth or Consequences' pap-happy master of ceremonies Ralph Edwards last week offered a radio prize to end radio prizes. Winner of his current voice-identifying contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid...