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...Childs's 53 restaurants two months ago for about $1,500,000. The team: crisp, ruddy-faced President N. Clark Earl Jr., onetime top aide to Restaurant Man Howard Johnson and formerly a colonel in charge of Army PXs and commissaries in Europe, and Executive Vice President Charles Crouch, 51, who had built up six faltering grocery stores into California's successful Lucky Stores chain (TIME, June 30, 1947). Although Childs had lost almost $230,000 in 1949 on a gross of nearly $20 million, the new team thought that Childs could be a moneymaker if the right...
...Plumbers. They cut $293,000 in annual costs by centralizing the restaurants' purchasing system and dropping the maintenance department. (Says Crouch: "We're restaurant men, not plumbers.") To boost the low morale of their 5,000 employees, they made each manager directly responsible for his restaurant, handed each a 20% raise and the promise of a profit-sharing plan if & when there are profits to be shared. They hired an ex-Powers model to teach Childs waitresses how to look better, centralized the baking job in New York and cut the bakers from 72 to five...
...Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing Illinois newsmen on state payrolls (TIME, May 9, 1949); Editor Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, best editorial, on Memorial Day; Photographer Bill Crouch of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune; Cartoonist James T. Berryman of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star...
...sharp blow for the Government in its effort to prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6 from its stable of witnesses. Paul Crouch, a tall, black-haired Miami newsman who had spent 17 years in the party, backed up much of what Manning Johnson had said, added that he had heard a party leader in 1938 recommend Bridges for another term on the national committee although "he was temperamental and hard to work...
...point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...