Word: connor
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Many lists would include Lawyer Connor himself. At 61, he has had varied and successful experience in Government as well as industry; he was Secretary of Commerce and also general counsel in the office of Scientific Research and Development. One of the businessmen most admired by other chief executives is Reginald Jones, 58, chairman of General Electric Co. (But for Jones to be elected, the Constitution would have to be amended. He was born in England, and brought to the U.S. as a child.) Another businessman on many lists would be Thornton F. Bradshaw, 58, the innovative president of Atlantic...
...little known by the public, in part because of the deep-rooted American suspicion of businessmen's motives. Many of our earlier Presidents (starting with George Washington) had some entrepreneurial experience, but the last out-and-out businessman who ran was Wendell Willkie in 1940. Says John T. Connor, chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. and former head of Merck & Co.: "Anyone with previous business experience becomes immediately suspect. Certain segments think that he can't make a decision in the public interest...
...unequal friendship (long before Midnight Cowboy.) And also for those who like to argue whether the book was better, The Last Hurrah is at Lehman Hall this weekend. Most people think that's the name of an overpriced steakhouse; actually it's the title of Edwin O'Connor's elegiac novel about an aging lrish pol. In the movie, Spencer Tracy plays the grand old mayor of a grand old New England city (guess which one) fighting for his political life. A must...
...never sung onstage or with an orchestra before," said Soprano Roberta Peters, 45, recalling her Metropolitan Opera debut 25 years ago. A Met understudy back then and the daughter of a shoe salesman, Peters had been called to duty when Nadine Connor fell ill hours before a scheduled performance in Don Giovanni. Last week, between acts of her 303rd Met performance (in Cost fan Tutte), Peters accepted a silver anniversary bowl from Met Board President William Rockefeller. The "little girl from The Bronx," she observed happily, "had really made...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...