Word: founder
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Despite this mushrooming, Joyce's founder and president, handsome William Henry Joyce Jr., 49, is taking no chances. For the past month, he has been skittering around Europe building his business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...
Died. Mrs. Alice Corbin Henderson, 58, poet and first associate editor (under Founder Harriet Monroe) of Poetry Magazine, which first offered Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot and Vachel Lindsay to a high-3row audience; of a heart ailment; at her ranch near Santa...
...visitors at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association heard papers and discussions on neuropsychiatry, gynecology, proctology, techniques in brain surgery. But stamping them as "sectarian," within the definition of the American Medical Association, was their obsession with the memory and dogma of osteopathy's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, whose life and work were endlessly eulogized...
...University of Alaska will be a harder problem. Since its founding in 1922, it has been battling an annual invasion of summer mosquitoes, sub-zero winter temperatures and a chronic shortage of money. Nevertheless, with Founder Bunnell pushing determinedly ahead, the university has grown until it now has 698 part-and full-time students and a 42-man faculty. It has become a center for Arctic research, a training ground for mining engineers, a clearinghouse of information for farmers and prospectors...
...plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...