Word: donners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduced ensembles of the Stravinsky and Milhaud. Violinist Tison Street and flutist Geoffrey Greenfield were outstanding in the Stranvinsky. The jazz-like Creation featured sensitive solos from 'cellist Philip Moss and saxophonist Hardin Matthews, as well as some sultry low-register flutter-tonguing by the two flutists. Oboists George Donner's Gershwin-like plaints creation actually predates Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris and high-register melody lines were models of sensitivity, control and stamina, Strangely, it was clarinetist Gary Gelber who received a special bow (for his flashy Benny Goodman virtuosity). Although Gelber was good, Donner...
After waiting until the last day before Chairman Frederick G. Donner's retirement at 65, General Motors finally named its new men at the top. As expected, Donner's successor is 60-year-old President James M. Roche (TIME cover, May 20, 1966). As for Roche's successor, G.M. settled weeks of speculation by tapping Edward Nicholas Cole, 58, one of five executive vice presidents who had been in the running...
...gregarious in an industry that shies away from chrome in its brass, Cole has also been known to urge subordinates to "kick hell out of the status quo," as he himself has done with a remarkable ability to survive. It was no secret that Cole was not enthusiastic about Donner's ban on using G.M. models in racing. And in 1964, Cole bent an arrow-straight G.M. tradition when he was divorced and re married. His second wife, Dollie Ann, 37, who last year presented Cole with a son (he has two children by his previous marriage), last week...
...running for the presidency: George Russell, 62. As vice chairman-a title not used at G.M. since 1946-he will handle public relations on sensitive issues such as auto safety and take charge of the key finance committee, where the fiscal savvy he picked up as a longtime Donner aide will serve Production Men Roche and Cole...
While the board as a whole will vote on the company's seventh president, it is Donner himself who will surely have the last word. And until he gives it, the guessing game ends at the door to the General Motors building. For the surest way to boil Fred Donner's blood is to play company politics...