Word: experts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pearl has help of a high order-an exuberant cast of dancers that prances up a tropical storm with Gower Champion's expert choreography. Cab Calloway is first-rate as the well-heeled hay and feed man for whom Dolly Levi sets her ostrich plumes; the only pity is that he has so little...
...column at the left of this page-in shoptalk called the masthead-there appears a new category: Reporters. The ten people listed there are cast as specialists who will report on one specific subject for a particular section of the magazine. Their mission is to be expert in their fields and through precise reporting add to the expertise that writers and editors bring to their sections. They are not built-in experts in the old-fashioned sense but young, interested, involved journalists who are developing a specialty...
Restless Entrepreneur Norton Simon has yet to find the all-purpose chief executive for Hunt Foods & Industries. Recently, Simon replaced President Francis Fabian, 52, an operations expert who served him for about two years. Into the gap went William E. McKenna, 48, a smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp...
...along with an inherited $500,000. He refers to the project as a "rehabilitation program," and claims that "any halfway-intelligent spectator will see that it is not favorable to drug addiction." His only previous movie experience came at 21, when he had a brief fling in production at Expert Films, Inc., part of Manhattan's nudie industry (TIME, Oct. 20). That ended when Rooks was arrested for possession of narcotics. Given a three-year suspended sentence, he drifted in and out of odd jobs and a brief marriage, occasionally stealing cash from his father's wallet...
...slump. In 1959, when his father, now dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged by the president because he lacks a good information system," says he. "Then if something goes wrong, he feathers the wrong engine...