Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss Ket." For Kettering, that invention eventually led to a place as head of the General Motors Research Corp., a vice president's title, a seat on the G.M. board and a fortune estimated at $33 million. For the next 48 years he kept probing, testing-often failing. But his successes included quick-drying paint, chrome metal, ethyl gasoline, a two-cycle diesel engine for locomotives-and more than 100 others...
Married. Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr., 32, a vice president of the Hilton Hotels Corp., son of Hotelman Conrad Hilton; and Patricia Blake McClintock, 18, daughter of Tulsa Millionaire (oil, banking) Frank Grant McClintock and Manhattan Socialite Mrs. William Horace Schmidlapp; she for the first time, he for the second (No. 1: Hollywood's Elizabeth Taylor); in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...never got farther than P.S. 13, started with Goldman. Sachs as a $3-a-week porter's assistant. After a World War I stint in the Navy, he became a securities trader, a Goldman, Sachs partner in 1927, helped to run investment trusts, including Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., which proved to be a disaster. It fell from $232 to $2 after the 1929 crash. "Boy," says Weinberg, "that was a lesson...
...four-year tenure in which he
more than doubled Mack's sales and successfully weathered the recession
(third-quarter sales of $66,352,321 v. $60,759,386 in 1957).
Successor: to be named by Dec. 31.
...Howard Stolpp Bunn, 58, executive vice president of Union Carbide Corp., second largest U.S. chemical company, became president, succeeding Morse G. Dial, 63, who moved up to chairman and continues as chief executive officer. A Philadelphia-born, Lehigh-educated ('20) chemist, Bunn is more salesman than scientist, has been executive vice president since 1955, is Dial's probable successor...