Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salaries of Harvard's teaching fellows will be boosted by 17 to 25 per cent this year, Dean Ford announced over the weekend...
Last fall, Mrs. Bruce offered to give $1,400,000, Mrs. Bunting said. Radcliffe had also collected $1,000,000 from alumnae and friends, and had earned another $1,000,000 from a Ford Foundation Challenge grant. With these initial donations, the Radcliffe College Council voted last April to begin construction, and the Radcliffe Trustees approved the decision in June. Digging began in July...
Some McCarthy dropouts strike a wistful note. Says Nobel Prizewinning Biochemist Arthur Kornberg of Stan ford, who had never worked in politics before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though...
...become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With blue-chip clients that include Eastman Kodak, Ford, Pan Am, Standard Brands and Liggett & Myers, J. Walter Thompson is also busily building sales for about 800 smaller companies in the U.S. and 27 other nations...
...agency was already on top of its field 13 years ago when Strouse moved from the Ford account-still J. Walter's biggest-into top management. Strouse, who was always more of an administrative man than a creative whiz, streamlined the agency and made it more profitable. "My basic thing," he recalled last week before leaving, "was to build a modern management structure." This he accomplished by separating senior executives from day-to-day operations so that they could think and plan better. He also introduced computerized operations wherever possible, cut back on the clerical help they replaced...