Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greater loyalty from his top civilian assistants than even affable Robert Lovett (September 1951 to January 1953). Through it all, Engine Charlie remained soft-spoken and relaxed, with an inclination to lean back and look at the ceiling while cigarette ashes dropped on to the lapel of his coat. Within his Pentagon office, he was the picture of a man enjoying...
...Overseas royalty began trickling in. Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest...
...courtly, white-haired stranger slipped into the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Ottawa one day last month. No one was home. A crew of painters was giving the big, slightly run-down sandstone mansion its first inside coat of paint in five years. The visitor poked among the sheeted furniture, inspected the fireplaces and the upstairs bedrooms. Before deciding whether or not to accept his appointment as the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada, R (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 67, wanted a look at the house in which he and Mrs. Stuart would have to live...
...coat & suit business," said Adolph Schuman, "you either got to think or die." As president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp., 43-year-old Cloak & Suiter Schuman has done plenty of thinking and thus his company is in the best of corporate health. Starting out 18 years ago with $2,000 borrowed from a bank, he has built up his clothing company (named after his wife) to the point where it grossed $7,100,000 last year, selling through 1,400 retail stores. Last week Schuman showed off the results of some of his thinking: he opened...
...wholesale price. The plan has also added $3,700,000 in new business to Schuman's gross, and to handle it he has hired 240 more U.S. workers. Impressed with these results, other San Francisco competitors have begun to copy Schuman's methods, and the San Francisco Coat & Suit Association is sending a representative to Paris to study Schuman's plan. Says Adolph Schuman: "It is smart, profitable business on both sides, not philanthropy...