Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the hall one typical Thursday walked nine hopefuls with eight minutes apiece to do their stuff. Three lights concealed onstage gave them their signals: green (speak louder), yellow (one more minute), red (stop). By way of a warmup, Chicago's Mrs. Charles S. Clark, who started the audition system 41 years ago. promised a program of "artists in embryo," recited a little poem entitled, Because I Got Up So Early Today...
...breed of socially conscious U.S. executives, Charles Harting Percy, youthful (39) president of Chicago's camera making Bell & Howell Co., is perhaps the most fervent preacher of the thesis that "the responsibility of business goes beyond making products for a profit." Businessmen are also obliged, says Percy, to serve society. While running Bell & Howell, the world's biggest producer of motion-picture equipment (1958 sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head...
...chair.' " Chuck Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever worked his way through college...
...enterprises that have fallen on hard times, and his specialty is modernizing them. Last week Tom Evans, chairman of Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co., Inc., an industrial combine with assets of $57 million, added another heirloom. He took over as board chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Crane Co., the nation's largest manufacturer of valves, fittings and pipes, in a shake-up of 104-year-old Crane's management...
Write & Light. A combination ballpoint-flashlight, made in West Germany, is being sold by Chicago's Crittenton Manufacturing Co. A flick-on switch directs a circle of light onto the writing surface, makes pen handy for use at lectures, in theaters, on night tables or as a pocket flashlight. Price...