Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate. Before it was tried by Laughton and the other talented members of the cast (Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead), Don Juan had never had a major U.S. production. "The longest theatrical aside in the history of the drama," it was regarded as fitter for the library than the stage. Shaw himself conceded that it would never be successfully played because "they . . . will think it nothing but a pack of words...
WILLY HERMANN SCHLIEKER is the outstanding example of this type. Only 37, Schlieker is one of the Ruhr's ablest, richest (total 1950 business: $24 million) operators in the steel business. Son of a poor Hamburg ship fitter, he started work at 16 as an SS typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade...
...point out an escape clause somewhere in his leader. Among the half dozen or so Conservative M.P.s I lunched with at one time or another, I never heard one talk about what the Tories would accomplish, or indeed sound as if he really believed his party was much fitter to govern than the Socialists. It is principally Winston Churchill, still bitter at his 1945 defeat, who thirsts for office. And he is getting older, growing hard of hearing and remote. A Conservative M.P. told me that he doubts that Churchill regularly speaks to more than 20 members of the House...
This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...
...stepped aside in September to let Tom Dewey run again, and had been given as consolation prize the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. At the time, Hanley had said he was "happy . . . and proud to do it." With the Korean war on, Dewey was a fitter man than he to run the state. But there had been another reason for his decision, and this week he told...