Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Don Ahrens, retired vice president of the traditionally Old Guardian General Motors Corp., agreed to carry Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...
Nowadays few people except Wife Vivienne would dare talk so impiously to Hub Robinson. At 54 he bosses the flashiest, costliest series in television: the Ford-sponsored NBC lineup of 39 weekly go-minute spectaculars. With a budget of $15 million, Hub Robinson can recruit some of the brightest players and producers-as he proved last week in his third Ford special, Henry James's eerie classic...
...Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford show): "Hubbell is the Eisenhower of the TV world, because...
Insights-and irreverence-are the daily Casbah pattern. The point is to give outstanding scholars a free year (at their regular salaries), and let them nourish one another "in the raw." Begun five years ago with a Ford Foundation grant, the Casbah (grants to date: $10.3 million) was built near Stanford University because scholars liked the isolation and their wives liked the weather. Already 233 fellows have passed through, representing 52 institutions and eleven foreign countries. Director Ralph Tyler, onetime dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, has no trouble recruiting. His fat waiting list now includes...
Leading the automakers' third-quarter reports was Ford Motor Co., which had earnings of $53.2 million, or 97? per share, v. a $14.9 million loss in the same period last year. The buoyant third period pushed Ford's nine-month earnings to $6.19 per share. Studebaker-Packard had a third-period net of $3,399,779, or 53? per share, v. a loss of $9,200,000 last year, pushed its nine-month earnings to $2.39 per share. Chrysler, hit hard by expansion and new model costs, reported a third-quarter loss of $34.2 million, highest...