Word: brainard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finalists from Radcliffe are Ann Dudley Cronkhite, Melanie B. DuBois, Jeannette McClintock, and Elisabeth C. Munro. College finalists include Richard B. Cowan, Wallace F. Dailey, Richard J. Mackler, Karl J. Phaler, and Brainard O. Taylor...
Shorn Rump & Hock. At the climax of the ritual, a livestock farmer in a dinner jacket squatted before six dogs already judged best of their groups and poked, prodded and peered with fervor while the animals danced through their paces. Said Judge William W. Brainard Jr., the Jersey farmer who made the final choice of the best dog: "Believe it or not," said Brainard, "it was a very close decision." After communing with himself he bestowed the blue ribbon on Ch. (for Champion) Puttencove Promise, a pure white standard poodle...
...Henry Samuel Beers, 57, moved from vice president to president of Hartford's Aetna Life affiliated Companies (second largest full-line insurance group after Travelers). He replaces Morgan B. Brainard, who becomes chairman. A Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (Hartford), Beers was headed for law when he was persuaded to take an actuarial exam, went to work for New York's Home Life. Aetna hired him in 1923, made him vice president in 1936 shortly after he headed the commission that wrote Connecticut's unemployment-insurance laws...
...McGinnis, 51, was derailed because stockholders were troubled not only by commuter complaints but also by financial danger signals ahead. "His lavish payment of dividends and his diminishing payments for maintenance made it certain that a crisis would arise," said Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s President Morgan B. Brainard Sr., who resigned from the board twelve months ago and unloaded substantial holdings of New Haven stock held by his company. Major stockholders, looking for a new president, tried to hire Werter S. Hackworth, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. Snorted Hackworth: "Too many commuters and too many...
...Superintendent. After 15 years in the office, the nearest a Universalist can come to being a bishop, Dr. Robert Cummins, 55, announced that he was retiring because "it has always been my custom to leave a church while I am still cherished." His suc cessor: peppy, Brooklyn-born Dr. Brainard Frederick Gibbons...