Word: donners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing double debut as a scenarist and second banana, Nightclub Comedian Woody Allen has written a small flat role for himself and fleshed it out with perhaps a dozen workable gags. The rest of the dialogue is doggedly juvenile, so Director Clive Donner whips it into a frenzy, rummaging eclectically through a whole range of comedy styles, like a man tying tin cans to the tale of an old torn...
...presidency of the world's largest industrial company becoming only the sixth man to assume the post in 42 years. He is James Michael Roche, 58, whose job as chief operating officer places him second in command-and makes him a likely successor-to Board Chairman Frederic Donner, 62, the chief executive officer. Roche, who succeeds retiring John Gordon, 65, has a particular qualification that boosted him over three or four other contenders and provides a telling indication of G.M.'s plans. The qualification: considerable knowledge of international business, gained as the executive vice president in charge...
...talks like a tortured composite of Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes. "I am in the process of becoming," he says ?period. He boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there is no truth.' It is important to know...
...Ledlie Prize, first awarded in '56, has gone to faculty members in several different fields: Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, for work in chemical synthesis; Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law, Emeritus, for legal research; Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Human Relations, for sociological research in industry
...others: Elizabeth Browning Donner, daughter of Pennsylvania Steel Co. Chairman William Henry Donner, 1932-33; Ruth Josephine Googins of Fort Worth, 1933-44; Actress Faye Emerson, 1944-50; and California Oil Heiress Minnewa Bell Ross...