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...Charles Allen Ward worked the waterfronts of China, mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. But his career as a businessman did not really begin until he had served time in Leavenworth on a narcotics charge. Allen's cellmate (income-tax evasion) was Herbert Huse Bigelow, head of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow (calendars, other advertising novelties). Bigelow thought Ward was "made of good clay," asked him what job he wanted with the company when he got out of stir. "Your job, H.H.," said Ward. Replied H.H.: "All right, if you can earn...
Paroled in 1925, bald, barrel-chested Charlie Ward started at B. & B. as a $25-a-week laborer. In six years he was general manager. When Bigelow died in 1933, he left Ward a third of his $3,000,000 estate and a chance at the presidency of B. & B. Far from satisfied that he had proved himself, Ward worked harder than ever to weather the depression, stepped up the pace still more to convert to war production (proximity fuses). Last week the New York Stock Exchange gave him proof that he had made the grade. It listed...
...James A. Michener, for his novel Tales of the South Pacific; Tennessee Williams, for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire; Bernard De Voto, for his history Across the Wide Missouri; Margaret Clapp, for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow; to W. H. Auden, for his "baroque eclogue" Age of Anxiety; Walter Piston, for his Symphony...
HARVARD YALE Beals, r.w. l.w., Bulkley Larocque, c. c., Reid Walker, l.w. r.w., Chisholm Owen, l.d. r.d., Lindley Crosby, r.d. l.d., O'Hearn Bigelow, g. g., Jenkins...
...sextet, the University hockey team faces the powerful Yale sextet this evening at 8 o'clock in the New Haven Arena. Twelve men will make the trip, leaving Boston today at 1 o'clock. They are the regular line-up of Beals, Larocque, Walker, Captain Owen, Crosby, and Bigelow; and six substitutes,--Austin, Guild, and Hill in the forward line, Hammond and Chase on the defence, and Flint at goal...