Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANTLERS NEEDED, read the notice in the bulletin of New Mexico's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Dr Ernest C. Anderson of Los Alamos' Biomedical Research Group wants elk or deer antlers, asks prospective donors to describe their antlers first by letter, giving year and place where they were collected...
...squez, he seems hardly to believe in reality. Compared with such a profound explorer-in-imagination as Pieter Brueghel, he sits by the stove cozily sketching. In context, his art has eminence. But the context is a shallow sea, shored by the book illustrations of his father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, and bounded at the horizon by the craggy islands of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer...
Monk & Gambler. On American Airlines, the changes will come naturally and inevitably to Cyrus Rowlett Smith, known familiarly in the industry as "C. R.," who has spent 24 years patiently and indefatigably making improvements in his line...
...road leading to Detroit's Metropolitan airport, snapped: "Who the hell put that up?" He had noticed that the hand of the stewardess in the sign was grotesquely large. It was quickly changed. I n a corporate world often dominated by slow-moving boards and committees, C. R. Smith acts with bewildering speed...
...C. R. is one of the few businessmen left in America," says Convair President Jack Naish, "with whom you can close a $100 million deal on his word alone." After Smith decided to order the Convair 600 jet, he called on Naish, chatted briefly about fishing and baseball, then suddenly blurted: "Hey, my guys tell me this 600 is a pretty good airplane." Naish agreed. Said Smith: "We want 25. How much will it be?" Naish told him $100 million. "O.K.," said C. R.-and walked...