Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer-director of the Ernie Ford show, I thoroughly enjoyed the fine article [May 27] you did on Mr. Ford. I must take exception, however, to one statement: you say "the only one who had an ulcer on the Ford show was the producer, and he brought that over from the Gobel show." I have never had the pleasure of working with two finer men than both George Gobel and Ernie Ford, and I like to feel that my ulcer is an occupational disease not derived from either show...
...Ford Foundation experiments with early admission at Chicago and Columbia were not a rousing success. High school students encouraged to advance to college met the idea for the most part with apathy. Counselors advised that many would prove emotionally unequipped for college years...
...Feel Free!" Though both these satellites are entirely independent corporations with their own trustees, Ford Foundation officials are apt to go out of their way to emphasize the complete autonomy of the Fund for the Republic. It is literally, says Robert Hutchins, its present head, "a completely disowned subsidiary of the foundation," and when it has spent its $15 million, it can expect to get no more. Its motto, according to Hutchins, is "Feel Free." Its province: the turbulent area of civil liberties...
...months he has been president, the Ford Foundation has already felt his touch. To consolidate the educational work of the foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, he drew up plans to merge the two, appointed the fund's respected Clarence Faust a foundation vice president. He also made clear that he thought the Program Committee, which reviewed all projects and managed to satisfy no one, should be eliminated. "When?" someone asked him. "Now," said Heald...
...cafeteria for 28 years, manages to break even. But most other company-run programs are in the red, Reynolds Metals absorbs a big part of the food costs annually for 1,100 Louisville workers. Thompson Products lost $61,000 last year serving employees 7,000 meals daily; Ford figures the loss at around 8? per customer to feed 3,000 workers at the Dearborn main headquarters. Part of the reason for the loss is that industrial firms must pay plant union wages and fringe benefits, which sometimes come to $2.50 an hour for the most menial kitchen help. A bigger...