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Mallon has been affiliated with Southwestern for the past six years. As an undergraduate at Dennison son College, he sold books and became a student manager. Although the managers receive no salary from the company, they receive a percentage of the total sales their recruiters make Mallon says if he doesn't feel a student is working he sends them home but adds that the attrition rate of his teams has gradually improved each year After college he became a full-time, salaried district sales manager for the company. Saving enough money, he was able to pay his way through...
...them to do their jobs better or faster. Says John McCarthy, assistant vice president for office systems at First National Bank of Boston: "There is no device yet on the market that addresses genuine executive functions." A survey of business managers earlier this year by a subsidiary of the Dennison Manufacturing Co., an office products firm in Framingham, Mass., found that many regarded computer-generated planning data as simply too detailed for the sorts of strategic decision making required of executives. Said one insurance executive: "The way computers are applied today is like using the space shuttle for home milk...
...tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand out particularly...
Another shipbuilder, Richard Dennison, 59, of South Thomaston, who has been in the business for 29 years, is also optimistic. Said he: "I'd like to see more of the same kind of boats. Maybe then the Arabs would drown in their own oil." Not likely. But one thing is certain: when Ned Ackerman takes the Leavitt on her maiden voyage, whether they sail north or south, skipper and ship will be moving in the right direction.-Hays Gorey
...such increases had to be approved by city officials, and they were frequent and large enough to make it traditionally one of the most profitable states in the entire Bell system. Ashley claims that Southwestern Bell officials were constantly wooing and bribing politicians in such cities as Austin and Dennison...