Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid hours, the room was in an almost continual uproar. The fireworks came from a handful of disgruntled stockholders led by two expert management baiters, Lewis Gilbert and Mrs. Wilma Soss. Gilbert and Soss wanted to make sure that the stockholders remembered that Chairman Young had changed his mind on two important points. One change was his decision to ask the stockholders to pay the $1,300,000 expense of his 1954 proxy fight, even though he had led stockholders to believe at the time that he would foot the bill himself. The other was Young's opposition...
Georgetown University Professor Leonard Emmerglick, once the Justice Department's expert in the Alcoa antitrust case, chimed in. Soon after the Korean war began, ODM decided to add 1,800,000 Ibs. to U.S. capacity, and push total production to 3.2 billion Ibs. by 1955. It gave the Big Three fast tax write-off allowances for new plants and proceeded to buy any new production the companies could not sell in the open market. In return, the Big Three agreed to deliver one-third of the new plant output to independent fabricators. But, charged Emmerglick, they have been failing...
Died. Phillips Wyman, 60, magazine circulation expert, publisher of Redbook and Blue Book magazines and a director of the McCall Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Redding, Conn...
Johns Hopkins University Professor Owen Lattimore, Far East expert still under federal charges that he lied to a Congressional committee about his Red ties, got his passport renewed. This cleared the way for Lattimore to accept bids to lecture this summer at four English universities and other West European schools...
...pictures instead of very wide ones. Most followed the lead of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas. Yet taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer in a dreamlike flux of colors that goes on and on, like a boat ride around a small pond...