Word: ingolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made within the pecking order, and Mother Bell rarely detours from the regular line of succession to fill an executive-suite vacancy in the headquarters at Manhattan's 195 Broadway. Thus it was hardly a surprise when A.T. & T. directors last week picked President H. I. (for Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 59, to replace Chairman and Chief Executive Frederick R. Kappel (TIME cover, May 29, 1964), who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 next month...
...Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 57, was elected president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to succeed retiring Eugene McNeely. Romnes, the Wisconsin-born son of an immigrant Norwegian baker, made his mark at A.T. & T. as an electrical engineer, won six patents in circuit design at Bell Laboratories before moving on to the operating side. As president of Western Electric, A.T. & T.'s manufacturing arm, from 1959 until early this year, he shaved the lead time on orders and deliveries for such critical items as cable. Romnes is a gentle and friendly executive whose great strength is persuasion and persistence...