Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensational dud. Filmed with U.S. Navy cooperation at San Diego and Point Mugu, Calif., the picture works up some passing interest in the missiles whooshing into space from the decks of aircraft carriers and submarines. These scenes are ruined by a broadside of plot cliches: Sub Commander Glenn Ford's valiant struggle against red tape to get his craft equipped with the new weapons; his romance with the admiral's secretary (Viveca Lindfors); his recovery, through sheer grit and amateur psychiatry, from an emotional trauma that paralyzes his legs...
...Thus Glenn Edward Swanson, a slim, nervous man with an autocratic air and computer-like mind, described how he got into the coil business in a Chicago loft 15 years ago. In its first year, his Standard Coil Products Co. barely broke even. Five years later, it was worth only $16,000. But by last week, Standard Coil was the biggest U.S. maker of television coils and tuners. On a gross of $24 million in the first nine months of 1950, the company netted $4,000,000, after provision for taxes...
...bought Square D Co.'s famed Kollsman Instrument Division, which makes altimeters, airspeed indicators, guided missile components, etc. Kollsman, now operating below capacity, will not pass officially into Swanson's hands until Dec. 30. When will Kollsman be at peak production again? Said cocky Glenn Swanson: "Late that afternoon...
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (286 pp.)-Glenn Clark-Macalester Park...
...Ever since In His Steps appeared," writes Glenn (How to Find Health Through Prayer) Clark, "I have dreamed of writing a sequel to it." What Would Jesus Do? is Author Clark's dream come true-a dedicated, step-by-step retracing of Author Sheldon's bestseller in terms of the post-World War II U.S. Like its predecessor, it is a composite sermon preached by its cast of characters, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of the characters in In His Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ...