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...Printer-Foreman Bill Meroney was part of a second procession: Reporter News workers having their hearts checked. Mrs. Adamson made sure that Meroney's questionnaire was completed ("Has anybody in your family ever had heart disease? Have you ever had rheumatic fever or scarlet fever?") After a blood-pressure reading, a nurse taped electrodes to Meroney's wrists and Dr. Adamson taped another pair to his ankles. Then the doctor switched on the ECG machine and got a reading of the electrical impulses generated with Meroney's heartbeats. He appeared to have a sound heart...
...Haven. Stockholders' Darling. Although a good many of the complaints proved on investigation to be justified (in 1955, for example, the New Haven curtailed maintenance by some $3,000,000), the main trouble seemed to be Pat McGinnis himself. He is the son of a railroad gang foreman, and, before he took over the New Haven 20 months ago in a proxy coup (TIME, April 26, 1954), he had a reputation for fiscal wizardry. As head of the New Haven, he continued to keep the stockholders happy (estimated 1955 profits: $10.5 million). He worked hard at his job, spent...
...impression that he was an intruder in their Oyster Bay home. Four days later, she told her story once more, to a grand jury. After listening to her testimony and the evidence of 30 others for 9½ hours, the grand jury ended its investigation. "We found," said Foreman Louis R. Blaich, "that no crime had been committed in the Woodward case...
...Johnny! Give me Joseph's ear!" foreman how many hours U.S. workers put in weekly. Amazed to hear about the 40-hour week, the Russian pointed out that Soviet workers stay on the job 70 hours. Replied the foreman: "You'd never get this crew to work 70 hours. They're a bunch of Commies." ¶ On the baby sardine who was frightened by a submarine: "Don't worry, dear," soothed his mother, "it's only...
Rough on Clients. Scanlon bullies his clients and lays down the law, once told an executive: "You'll probably have to fire every foreman you've got working for you." Another time, when a company head came in with his troubles, Scanlon roared: "Why in hell did you put your brother-in-law in that job? That'll have to be changed...