Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Vickrey's fine cover certainly shows the transition from bitchery to virtue-a grand job. Hope Harry Cohn's protégé completes the full cycle...
...economics, latched onto a temporary job to raise the money to go to Harvard Business School. The job: a $100-a-month mail clerk at Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters. Twenty-three years later, he was elected president (current salary: $285,000), helped make P. & G. the U.S.'s largest soapmaking firm (20 plants in seven countries, 30,000 employees, $1,038,290 net sales...
...G. LINDALL...
...Loeb for the thrill murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, waited impassively for the decision that could commute his 85-year sentence to 64 years, free him by the year's end with time off for good behavior. When the news came that Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had refused clemency, the pudgy, ailing onetime child prodigy told reporters, "I stand at the open graveside of my hopes." Later he said he would make a third appeal for parole...
...front of "G" entry, two imposing preppy types were talking to a pair of Summer School lovelies. One of the males was unmistakeably a Princeton. He wore the traditional dark gray shetland sweater, button-down shirt, English-style gray flannels and cordovans. The other person was attired in white varsity-letter sweater, turned inside out, of course, freshly pressed khakis, white athletic socks, saddle shoes and crew-cut. "Probably a Yale," thought...