Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco he labored out front and backstage to try to bring harmony between U.S. Senator Bill Knowland, the would-be Governor, and Governor Goodwin J. Knight, the reluctant would-be U.S. Senator, while steering clear of Knowland's lonely stand for a right-to-work...
Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...sometimes resemble an Oklahoma land rush for prestige and pay, with an unseemly flapping of gowns and gums as scholars jostle for position? In a book that seems likely to make the organization scholar a notorious subspecies of the herd-running Organization Man, Sociologists Theodore Cap-low and Reece J. McGee examine the rush as it is run at ten unnamed major universities. The authors of The Academic Marketplace (Basic Books; $4.95) find schools and scholars ridden with intrigue and lustful for prestige, often indifferent to teaching and scholarship...
...Wadsworth, 78, widow of New York Republican Senator (1915-27) and Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...
...hard-pressed appliance men, the turnabout came none too soon. Said Westinghouse Vice President Richard J. Sargent: "We are confident that the recession for this industry is over." Most of the industry agreed. Items: ¶Borg-Warner's Norge Division reported that September sales were up 29% for the best month in nearly two years. The company recalled more than 600 workers in three plants, put them on two shifts. Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15." ¶General Electric's Appliance Park...