Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anna Rosenberg is a 5 ft. 3 dynamo and a resolute wearer of outlandishly feminine hats which cover one of the shrewdest heads in public life. A Hungarian-her father made furniture for the Emperor-who was brought to the U.S. at ten, she has never quite disposed of her Budapest accent. She has been alternately charming or browbeating people into accord since her junior year at New York's Wadleigh High School. There, during World War I, she persuaded boys at two neighboring high schools to end their strike over compulsory military drill which lengthened the school...
Asked about the future of women in publishing, Fleur Cowles, purring dynamo of Flair and other Cowles publications (Look, Quick), was hopeful: "It's the brightest, most glorious future one can imagine. But why ask me? Look at the other women whose literary lights have guided them into editorships. At this time, maybe, just maybe, mine was shining just a little brighter...
Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
...Dynamo. Elmer Lindseth calls himself "a beneficiary of the capitalist system." The son of Swedish immigrants (his father was a blacksmith), he won scholarships to Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology and Ohio's Miami University, later a teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary...
Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, "in my more paranoiac moments," rather extravagant visions. "Imagine Carnegie Hall," says he, "filled with all the great intellectual leaders of the world today. I don't think that you could get them all to agree on a single point, much less a series of ideas. But you could perhaps get them to agree that there are certain valid questions modern man should...