Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call. For one thing, Belin told reporters that he was a graduate of the University of Arkansas. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch checked with the university, found that no Clyde Belin had ever attended. Belin also said he was ordained a Baptist minister at the Southern Baptist Conference in Hermitage, Ark. The Arkansas Baptist State Convention not only denied the existence of the conference but added that conferences do not ordain ministers. Belin said" that he had earned three theology degrees from the Southern Bible Institute in New Orleans between 1929 and 1931. But the nearest thing New Orleans...
True enough, Belin had been a preacher of sorts. For a while he was associated with the St. Louis Revival Center, which featured many evangelists, including the Rev. Louisa Copeland, who would tell audiences how God had filled her teeth with gold. Then Belin got "a call to start a university," opened a school in St. Louis, ran it until 1956, when "the Lord provided another campus in Chillicothe, Mo." For the students who came to that campus, the experience was a disaster...
...corpsmen that it is caused by a virus. But they could never catch the critter. And though its effects partly resemble those of some of the Coxsackie viruses, it does not respond to any of the tests for that group. The best the doctors can do is to call it "Ardmore disease," and hope that some clues will turn...
...along Madison Avenue last week was a tough-talking executive named Edward T. Ragsdale, general manager of General Motors' Buick Motor Division. From morn till night, he was discussed, watched, wooed with every honeyed promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet...
Industry's rush to answer the school bell's call has taken two main channels: company-run or management institute schools that are often as large as small colleges, and special programs at universities and colleges to improve executive minds in more academic surroundings, perhaps the most famous company college is General Electric's two-year-old advanced management course, which is given at a $2,000,000 center at Crotonville, N-Y., 35 miles from Manhattan. There top executives from every G.E. division live together for 13 weeks, attending classes and eating their meals together, sleeping...