Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining $7,500,000. Sample: Fund Chairman H. Irving Pratt dropped a casual note to one alumnus who had already given $100,000, promptly got back a pledge for $100,000 more. From Manhattan, Pratt raised $50,000 with three phone calls in a single hour. One previous giver, listed as possibly good for another...
...found myself with all this money," recalls Board Chairman Dana. "If you wait until you're dead, it often doesn't get used the way you want it to." Dana gave generously to hospitals; then (in 1956) he discovered small colleges. They seemed to him especially deserving: "At a big university, there's no development of natural resources through companionship. I think students in the small college understand life more. Life at a small college broadens them, and they study harder...
Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, late of NBC, came to the network with credentials as program director for a West Coast radio chain, ad manager for the American Tobacco Co., and v.p. of a Madison Avenue ad agency; he was the network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed...
...women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor School from 1936 to 1941, when he went to Mills as chaplain. Since then, Chaplain Hedley has also become department chairman and professor of economics and sociology, teaches a senior course in labor problems and a junior course in ethnic groups...
Steel. Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel, predicted that, barring a new strike, the nation's mills will pour 70 million ingot tons in the first half, 130 million during the whole year, up from 92 million in 1959 and above the alltime high of 117 million...