Word: founder
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John Henebry, 40, Air Force Reserve major general, learned from commanding bombers in the Pacific enough to become the 26-year-old founder of Chicago's Skymotive, Inc. (executive aircraft servicers). Allen J. Lefferdink, 40, onetime Nebraska grocer boy, went to midshipman's school in 1942, captained subchaser No. 672 on Atlantic convoys, came out to build a Rocky Mountain empire of 42 companies in banking, insurance, a new luxury hotel. Sitting in his office under the old 672's flag, he says: "I run my businesses just like the Navy...
...pell-mell herding of millions into communes was threatening to produce a resistance that might cause an even less ambitious program to founder. So Mao and his colleagues were compelled to slow up. But they have yet found no other way to achieve their headlong ambitions...
...Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
Died. Sir John Collings Squire, 74, British poet, critic, parodist, founder and editor (1919-34) of the now defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire's Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote...
Under the plan, approved by the heirs of A. & P.'s Founder George H. Hartford, who own 81% of the stock, all of the company's outstanding stock will be replaced with a single class of voting common stock. (The other 19% of A. & P. stock is publicly held but has had no voting rights.) All common stockholders will receive a 10-for-1 split on their old shares, and three shares of new common stock will be issued for each preferred share. When the new common stock is traded this week for the first time...