Word: hawley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modernize and overhaul the 23-year-old Hawley-Smoot Tariff, which is still the basis for 1953's regulations...
Gift Shop Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...
Most publishers do not allow their books to come out in cheap paperback reprints until sales in hard covers have petered out. Last week they were beginning to wonder if they had been wrong. They noted that the deal by which Houghton Mifflin and Ballantine Books published Cameron Hawley's Executive Suite (TIME, Dec. 8) simultaneously in $3 hard-cover and 35? paperback editions seemed to be a solid success. Ballantine, which has sold 375,000 copies in soft covers, is getting ready to print at least 100,000 more, a big sale for a paperback. Houghton Mifflin...
...thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden, but interesting novel, Executive Suite, by Cameron Hawley, even dared to draw an understanding picture of a U.S. corporation and of a businessman who was not a cross between Babbitt and Captain Bligh...
...Author Hawley, a businessman himself, got to know the ins & outs of corporate life in 25 years with Armstrong Cork Co. Born in South Dakota, he joined Armstrong in 1927 as an adman, worked up through sales and finance to become advertising director. A short-story writer for slick magazines on the side, Hawley quit Armstrong six months ago to write his first book. Some of his reviewers, he says, were baffled by Executive Suite: they were so accustomed to caricatured businessmen that they kept looking for the tongue in Hawley's cheek. Hawley is not discouraged...