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...long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products, run by ex-Adman John Meek McKibben, 51. Price is the overseer who keeps the top echelon pulling together, holds it responsible for meeting goals. All of them sit in on the overall management committee, which determines how high Westinghouse should set its sights for expansion...
...When cabinets fell, he always got on a train for St. Chamond instead of staying in Paris with the perennial hopefuls who clustered around the President's palace in the hope that, by chance or default, they might be tapped to form a government. He was a second-echelon minister-Economic Affairs-in the Queuille cabinet; in four successive cabinets he was Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism...
...Call Me Son." After four months covering front-line units, Reed, now a sergeant, was transferred to a rear echelon supervising Army combat correspondents. In August, with his two-year term of duty up, he was shipped to the U.S. From San Francisco, he phoned City Editor Johnston. "Well, son, how the hell are you?" asked Johnston. "Listen," said cocky, battle-tested Reporter Reed, "don't call...
Such "normal" head-chopping of executives has made Montgomery Ward a merchandising oddity. Though it is the second largest general retailer in the world, not one of its top-echelon men has had solid retailing experience. Half of its six-man top operating committee, including new President Krider, came up through the accounting department-men who are scornfully referred to in the company as "scorekeepers." Sewell Avery has put most of the emphasis on cost-cutting rather than selling...
Resumption of lower echelon football relationships proceeded from a casual conversation between Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Athletic Association, and R. Kenneth Fairman, Princeton's athletic director, Getchell and yesterday...