Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. William Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
Usually two professors and no more than 14 undergraduates attend the gatherings, which have been held twice weekly for several weeks. No special dinners are prepared, but students and guests meet before dinner for sherry provided from the House's Ford Foundation funds by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...
...Keith Raney '60, of Winthrop House and Greenville, Ohio, was chosen president of the Glee Club in yesterday's executive committee elections. Loring Conant, Jr. '61, of Adams House and Dedham, was named vice-president, and Frederic H. Ford '60, of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I., became secretary. The Club also appointed John B. Goodenough '61, of Adams House and Ridgewood, N.J., as associate manager...
Happily for their admirers, Phil and Mimi have remained unchanged by success. Says Phil: "We learned the routine in tough clubs. Why change?" There is obviously no reason to change anything at all-not even Mimi's teeth. Between them, Phil Ford and Mimi Hines expect to gross more than $150,000 in 1959, and, says Mimi, "without my teeth, I don't know what I'd do for laughs...
...sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head up in the clouds with the academic people") and is the chairman of the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education ("If all of us in industry learned better the world in which we live, we'd all be better individuals"). He had a hand in the Rockefeller brothers' special studies of national security problems and foreign economic policy, is the first chairman...